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Aren't there similarly-strong legal protections against police entering a data center and accessing servers?
by rococode 8y ago
Aren't there similarly-strong legal protections against police entering a data center and accessing servers?
- misttar 8y agoNot really. There are protections in both cases. But they are different. For instance, in the USA, there is no requirement that you have a mechanism to provide information stored at home to law enforcement, even under warrant/court order. If you have one, they can compel you to use it, but if you don't they have no remediation. But a cloud provider is legally required to have that mechanism, and when order if they don't exercise it, they are punished. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_Communications_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_Communications_Act and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act.