Obama Administration Says the World's Servers Are Ours

An anonymous reader points out this story about the U.S. Justice Department's claim that companies served with valid warrants for data must produce that data even if the data is not stored in the U.S. Global governments, the tech sector, and scholars are closely following a legal flap in which the US Justice Department claims that Microsoft must hand over e-mail stored in Dublin, Ireland. In essence, President Barack Obama's administration claims that any company with operations in the United States must comply with valid warrants for data, even if the content is stored overseas. It's a position Microsoft and companies like Apple say is wrong, arguing that the enforcement of US law stops at the border. A magistrate judge has already sided with the government's position, ruling in April that "the basic principle that an entity lawfully obligated to produce information must do so regardless of the location of that information." Microsoft appealed to a federal judge, and the case is set to be heard on July 31.

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Re:Maybe, maybe not.

[roman_mir]

This is the case for any normal country, as well it should be. I can't believe I'm defending Obama on something,

- that's because you have no idea what you are actually defending OR talking about. In case I am pointing out USA DOJ was on a FISHING EXPEDITION, there weren't even court orders against any specific people, there was a BLANKET DEMAND FOR ALL INFORMATION ON ALL ACCOUNTS HELD BY ANY AMERICANS IN A SWISS BANK.

but they're right on this one: if a country's legal system has a valid case for something, and issues a court order ordering you to turn something over, you can't just avoid a court order by saying "it's in my summer home in another country!". If you refuse, they can hold you in contempt of court until you decide to produce it. Maybe the other country can't be compelled to give it up, but you're in this country, and they can keep you in jail as long as they want.

- proves one thing, you have 0 idea of what you are talking about. 0 (*zero*, nada, zilch, zip, empty space, empty head).

Tax evasion is not a crime in Switzerland and shouldn't be anywhere else either, by the way. Defining tax evasion as a crime is an act of aggression against individual rights of people on this planet by the cooperating collective mob and the mafia known as 'government'.