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 mwvdlee · 2014-09-10 02:22 · Score: 4, Informative

I know many governments already basically say "you can't store government data in a US cloud service or on a US server" for exactly this reason.
Make that "you can't store government data on any server from any company doing any kind of business within the US".

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