Re:The End of Safe Harbor and a Scary Path Forward
by Aloisius on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @04:23PM
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The Microsoft case is about extraterritorial limits of search warrants, not subpoenas.
US corporations can be compelled by subpoena to appear before court and turn over documents/evidence they control regardless of what country they are stored in.
No idea about administrative subpoenas which I believe include National Security Letters though. I imagine it is the same as the judicial subpoenas.
Re:The End of Safe Harbor and a Scary Path Forward
by junto on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @04:16PM
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Spot on. If Microsoft lose this case then both Azure and AWS have major problems. I do wonder though whether they can simply restructure their corporations so that they have a European arm that is completely independent legally from the US one. Maybe that will solve the NSA and EU legal problems.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corporation_v._Unite...