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Devil's advocate: what if MS, Google et al had all the US persons' email and files stored in Canada or Germany...on purpose? You type your email in Washington D

Devil's advocate: what if MS, Google et al had all the US persons' email and files stored in Canada or Germany...on purpose? You type your email in Washington DC and then it is stored in a server somewhere in Germany. No can do says Microsoft.

tzs 12y ago
Along similar lines, suppose you are GM, and you have known for over a decade that faulty ignition switches on your cars have been killing people, yet you have not applied the cheap fix for the problem, and that this is at least grossly negligent and possibly criminal. Can you just ship all the incriminating physical documents to a GM branch in another country so that US prosecutors and US plaintiff attorneys and US regulators cannot get them? It would be one hell of a loophole if a person or company in country X could put documents (electronic or physical) that they fully control completely out of the reach of prosecutors, plaintiffs, and regulators in country X simply by storing those documents in country Y but still fully in their control and easily in reach when it serves their interests to access them.
- err4nt 12y ago
  Does that work with physical papers and reports? Moving them physically to a different country?
  - wmf 12y ago
    From the article: "Longstanding U.S. law holds that the recipient of a subpoena must provide the information sought, no matter where it is held, he said."