Microsoft Agrees To Contempt Order So It Can Appeal Email Privacy Case

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @12:12AM from the fighting-the-privacy-fight dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft made news some weeks ago for refusing to hand over customer emails stored on its Dublin, Ireland servers to the U.S. government. The district judge presiding over the case agreed with the government and ordered Microsoft to comply with its demands. On Monday, Microsoft struck a deal with the U.S. government in which the company would be held on contempt charges but would not be penalized for it until after the outcome of an appeal. The district judge endorsed the agreement (PDF) on Thursday.

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Re:Microsoft has to fight this ... by Nemyst · 2014-09-10 02:45 · Score: 5, Funny

You got that wrong, this is the US providing heavy stimulus for foreign companies creating their own cloud services. They're basically giving free reign to European providers, who do not own a single server in the US, and telling them to go ahead and dominate the market. Europeans should be thanking them, if anything!