One is a court of competent jurisdiction ordering discovery. The other is not. As far as i understand (from my British friends): They generally can compel peop

One is a court of competent jurisdiction ordering discovery. The other is not. As far as i understand (from my British friends): They generally can compel people inside the UK to produce papers, but would not otherwise have jurisdiction to order much here. Instead, they ordered a person in the UK to produce non-UK protected documents. So what they did here is pretty extraordinary, and if everyone didn't hate facebook, would likely cause a very serious diplomatic incident. One of the underlying problems is that they aren't six4three's documents to produce. They are not the owner or custodian of these documents. They simply have access under a protected set of circumstances by court order. This is quite literally compelled espionage: "Espionage or spying, is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information without the permission of the holder of the information."