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EU don’t have the same kind of laws that don’t obey other countries laws as I am familiar with. So a solution would also be to move headquarters for Microsoft,

• tzs 4y ago
  > EU don’t have the same kind of laws that don’t obey other countries laws as I am familiar with No other country's laws would be involved in the scenario I asked about. It does not violate any US law for a company that has stored data in US AWS to retrieve that data. The French authorities would be asking the French company to give them a copy of data that the French company controls and has legal access to. All the French company has to do to comply is make an API request to AWS, something they presumably routinely do. If merely storing documents outside of your own country, but still within your control (in the sense that you can retrieve them any time you need them by asking whoever/whatever is holding them for you in the other country), is sufficient to make it so your own country can no longer legally compel you to turn over copies of those documents I don't see how that would not lead to massive problems for that country. Wouldn't every company making consumer products, for example, store all documents produced during design and testing outside the country so in case safety issues arise later investigators can't get those documents to help build a negligence case against the company?