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Microsoft wins U.S. appeal over warrant for emails held abroad
- Analemma_ 10y agoThis is hugely important. The precedent that the government was trying to set- that American courts can issue warrants to an American company to retrieve data stored in any country- would've been a disaster for so many different reasons: - The simple privacy nightmare of the US government being able without the cooperation of other countries - American cloud providers losing customers to native companies which would be unaffected by the ruling - Retaliatory actions of foreign governments demanding information stored in the US, with no sound rationale why these requests should be refused. Of course, now intelligence agencies are simply going to go to Congress and demand a revised version of the Stored Communications Act that would let them get back to business as usual, but this could be defeated. Keep paying attention!