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US Grants Itself the Right to Demand Online Data Stored Over
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No matter where your data is stored the US has access to it.
Basically, the United States can now bypass individual laws given by the worlds governments and any efforts to safeguard information from the prying eyes of the NSA by storing data outside the United States.
US Magistrate Judge James Frances in New York has decided that Internet service providers such as Google or Microsoft must turn over any customer information demanded by the government, along with any emails stored in data centers outside the United States.
The reasoning behind this decision is that it would just take too long for US agencies to coordinate efforts with foreign governments to obtain the desired data, which would burden the government substantially. Law enforcement efforts would be seriously impeded, the judge said.
Considering the current international debate over privacy following the huge disclosures by whistleblower Edward Snowden about the NSAs efforts to collect huge amounts of customer data from everywhere in the world, this new piece of information comes in line with the current trend in the United States.
Companies such as Google and Microsoft have data centers in many countries of the world. So far, this meant that the United States government couldnt easily gain access to the data stored in these locations and therefore many were content with the added layer of security.
Brazil had in fact considered demanding that tech companies store citizens data on specially created data centers so they wouldnt be easily accessed by the United States government following the NSA revelations.
The decision comes as Microsoft challenged a warrant because the US government shouldnt be allowed to search the content of email stored overseas.
A US prosecutor cannot obtain a US warrant to search someones home located in another country, just as another countrys prosecutor cannot obtain a court order in her home country to conduct a search in the United States. We think the same rules should apply in the online world, but the government disagrees, said a Microsoft spokesperson, echoing the frustration felt by many in the world.
The details of the warrant, as well as which agency issued it remain undisclosed, but in the grand scheme of things, it doesnt even really matter. What does matter, however, is the fact that the United States is trying to use companies with headquarters on its grounds to stretch its access to data it shouldnt have access to under normal circumstances.
US Magistrate Judge James Frances in New York has decided that Internet service providers such as Google or Microsoft must turn over any customer information demanded by the government, along with any emails stored in data centers outside the United States.
The reasoning behind this decision is that it would just take too long for US agencies to coordinate efforts with foreign governments to obtain the desired data, which would burden the government substantially. Law enforcement efforts would be seriously impeded, the judge said.
Considering the current international debate over privacy following the huge disclosures by whistleblower Edward Snowden about the NSAs efforts to collect huge amounts of customer data from everywhere in the world, this new piece of information comes in line with the current trend in the United States.
Companies such as Google and Microsoft have data centers in many countries of the world. So far, this meant that the United States government couldnt easily gain access to the data stored in these locations and therefore many were content with the added layer of security.
Brazil had in fact considered demanding that tech companies store citizens data on specially created data centers so they wouldnt be easily accessed by the United States government following the NSA revelations.
The decision comes as Microsoft challenged a warrant because the US government shouldnt be allowed to search the content of email stored overseas.
A US prosecutor cannot obtain a US warrant to search someones home located in another country, just as another countrys prosecutor cannot obtain a court order in her home country to conduct a search in the United States. We think the same rules should apply in the online world, but the government disagrees, said a Microsoft spokesperson, echoing the frustration felt by many in the world.
The details of the warrant, as well as which agency issued it remain undisclosed, but in the grand scheme of things, it doesnt even really matter. What does matter, however, is the fact that the United States is trying to use companies with headquarters on its grounds to stretch its access to data it shouldnt have access to under normal circumstances.
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