The old story of the conflict between Microsoft and a US Federal Judge concerning the access to emails stored in a server located in Ireland is still going on.
The key point is the following: do the US Authorities have the right to access data stored on servers owned by a US Company regardless of where servers are located – inside or outside US?
The Appeal Court said no twice but now the Supreme Court could be asked to pronounce its sentence.
Considering the US tech companies expectations on the cloud business it is not a minor issue, isn’t it? Particularly in the Trump era.
All details in the computerweekly story.