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Re:GitHub banned all Iranian users. Our accounts are restric... by sebazzz on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:33AM (#20551978)

Are you sure? Isn't the point of Azure in Ireland that the US government won't be able to request data under the patriot act?

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Re:GitHub banned all Iranian users. Our accounts are restric... by yub on Monday July 29, 2019 @11:04AM (#20555301)

Nope, the point of Azure in Ireland is to increase availability and decrease latency for EU clients. Microsoft challenged a warrant in 2013 to hand over emails stored in Ireland, but the SCOTUS vacated the rulings since it was moot by the CLOUD act of 2018, which allows the government to get data from US companies, no matter where the data physically is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_St...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

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Re:GitHub banned all Iranian users. Our accounts are restric... by def_true_false on Monday July 29, 2019 @07:08PM (#20560439)

Huh. Azure used to have a special region in Germany (joint operation with Deutsche Telekom) but it seems they've killed it last year.

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