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In re Warrant to Search a Certain E-mail Account Controlled & Maintained by Microsoft Corp.

Second Circuit Eases Tension Between U.S. Discovery Requirements and EU Privacy Laws

By Nick Akerman

Microsoft scored an important victory when the Second Circuit ruled that the government is not authorized to issue warrants for customer data stored overseas. In re Warrant to Search a Certain E-mail Account Controlled & Maintained by Microsoft Corp. should offer a level of comfort for the cloud computing industry as a whole and for U.S. companies that have an international storage footprint.

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Nick is a partner in Dorsey & Whitney's New York Office. He is a trial lawyer specializing in both complex civil and criminal cases and is a nationally recognized expert on computer crime and the protection of competitively sensitive information and computer data. Read More...

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