BigDataFr recommends: Big Privacy Ruling Says Feds Can’t Grab Data Abroad With a Warrant

[…] An appeals court just sent the American Justice Department a clear message about its ability to reach beyond US borders to collect data with a search warrant: Keep your hands to yourself.

In Thursday’s landmark ruling, a panel of Second Circuit judges decided that Microsoft can’t be forced to turn over the email communications of a criminal suspect in a drug investigation whose emails were stored at Microsoft’s data center in Dublin, Ireland. The judge’s decision states that under the Stored Communications Act, a search warrant sent to Microsoft can’t be applied internationally. That decision overturns a New York court’s ruling and sets a new precedent that limits American prosecutors’ ability to pull foreign communications data out of data centers beyond US borders—even when the company itself is headquartered in the US. […]

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By Andy Greenberg
Source: https://www.wired.com