EU Introduces Competing Bill to US Cloud Act

February 26, 2018 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

When I wrote about the CLOUD Act last week, I expected this to happen; I just didn’t expect it to happen so soon. The CLOUD Act (see post) is an attempt by Congress to make it easier for U.S. law enforcement to force companies to respond to subpoenas for data when the data is not […]

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CLOUD Act Bill Addresses Thorny Issue of Overseas Data Subpoenas

February 22, 2018 CyberCecurity 1 Comment

Microsoft has been fighting with the Justice Department for years over some data Justice wants that Microsoft says is stored in Ireland. Justice says Microsoft can bring it back to the US and then they can subpoena it. Microsoft says doing that will break EU laws. The argument goes on. The current status is that […]

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