Posted on 07/15/2014 11:25:08 AM PDT by lilyramone
Obama administration fights to seize Microsoft emails held in IRELAND in landmark legal battle
The U.S. Justice Department is claiming that Microsoft must hand over emails that the company stores in databases in Dublin, Ireland, in a case that is being watched closely by tech companies legal scholars.
The U.S. federal government is claiming that it can force any company that conducts business operations within its borders to comply with warrants for data stored on its databases, even if those databases aren't physically located within the United States.
Several companies that operate within the U.S. keep databases in other countries. Ireland has become a popular location for many of the U.S. tech companies.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Oops. Hard drive busted. No backup.... sorry.
Talk about a slow pitch. This is Microsoft’s opportunity to declare that the emails were all lost in a hard drive crash and no backups were made.
If it’s good enough for the IRS, it’s good enough for anyone.
Boy someone really must have something to hide. I’m sure thy have a hard drive destructionist expert en route.
Aha! Found Lerner’s missing emails.
Microsoft is too left leaning to put Obama on the spot with a response like this.
> Oops. Hard drive busted. No backup.... sorry.
Oh man so sorry. There was a construction working here just the other day with one of those huge magnets...you know the type they use to pickup cars and it swung too close to the window and the hard drive just went poof...
Totally claim the emails were lost! LOL!!
Oh the irony - not that this would work in court but... it will entirely point out the hypocrisy and double-standardosityness of the current regime. And it would embarrass them too
oh my this is delicious
How about the government cough up the IRS emails first.
So easy for Microsoft to say “oops, our servers crashed 3 years ago!”
Just as soon as Lois Lerner’s emails turn up.....so never.
US GOVT Claims OVERSEAS “LAWS”
to seize u.s citizens` foreign overseas
1. Bank accounts
2. Database & email records
3. Land & houses
4. Cars
5. Liens on foreign relatives` bank accounts and properties
6. extradition of US citizens expats
7. corporations
8. pets
9. etc
From the article:
“The federal government already has received a favorable ruling in the case - in April, a magistrate judge ruled in its favor, concluding that ‘the basic principle that an entity lawfully obligated to produce information must do so regardless of the location of that information.’
Microsoft appealed the ruling. It will be heard on July 31.
In its own filings, Microsoft wrote that the ruling could impact companies across the globe.
‘Congress has not authorized the issuance of warrants that reach outside US territory,’ Microsoft’s attorneys wrote. ‘The government cannot seek and a court cannot issue a warrant allowing federal agents to break down the doors of Microsoft’s Dublin facility.’”
“The company even brought up the level of trust the public has in the government having access to personal information after former NSA analyst Edward Snowden leaked information about the government’s surveillance programs.
Other tech companies agree with Microsoft.”
I’m inclined to think that if an agreement to seize US company emails from foreign nations has not been negotiated by treaty, then foreign nation can say no to Obama.
Which emails about which topics is it that Big Brother wants to obtain?
I see no reference to that.
As long as Snowden gets his copy first.
10. Send Spec Ops team to Dublin and shoot the dog or cat at that facility!
sorry... the drive went bad and we recycled it
seriously, they should say that
everyone should
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