A landmark court decision for ISPs and IT companies
Microsoft will be forced to hand customer data including bank details and emails to the US government after a search warrant was upheld on Friday, even though the information is stored on a server in Dublin.
The company had challenged the warrant on the basis that the US government should not be able to search information stored entirely on overseas servers.
But a New York Magistrate, Judge James Francis, ruled that Microsoft and other ISPs including Google could not refuse to hand over customer data even if the information was held on foreign soil.
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