#foreign servers

Google stops challenging most US warrants for data on overseas servers

Enlarge (credit: Harold Cunningham/Getty Images) Google has quietly stopped challenging most search warrants from US judges in which the data requested is stored on oversees servers, according to the Justice Department. The revelation, contained in a new court filing to the Supreme Court, comes as the administration of President… Read entire story.

Source: Ars Technica

U.S court upholds Microsoft’s victory in overseas email verdict; big win for privacy

An equally divided federal appeals court refused to reconsider its landmark decision forbidding the U.S. government from forcing Microsoft Corp and other companies to turn over customer emails stored on servers outside the United States. Tuesday’s 4-4 vote by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan let stand a July 14 decision that was seen as a victory for privacy advocates, and for…

A federal appeals court on Thursday said Microsoft Corp <MSFT.O> and other companies cannot be forced to turn over customer emails stored on servers outside the United States.

The 3-0 decision by a panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York was a victory for privacy advocates, as well as for technology companies hoping to offer cloud computing and other services to customers around the world.

Circuit Judge Susan Carney said communications held by U.S. service providers on servers located outside the United States are beyond the reach of domestic search warrants issued under the Stored Communications Act, a 1986 federal law.

“Congress did not intend the SCA’s warrant provisions to apply extraterritorially,” she wrote. “The focus of those provisions is protection of a user’s privacy interests.”

Microsoft had been challenging a warrant seeking emails stored on a server in Dublin, Ireland, in a narcotics case.

This beautiful sunny day in Bielorus tends to be the final step about cutting off the Internet by the country's borders. Now most worldwide resources, host providers and everyone else in the world, ever benefiting from *.by zone traffic will suffer clients loss. The President of Bileorus, Aleksandr Lukashenko introduced a law, penalizing everyone, who will access foreign servers for almost $100. Today this law enters into force.

On the other hand, in Ukraine, which is neighboring Bielorus people expect the same situation, as both countries present strong dictating regimes. Just Lukashenko's one is more perfected. Seems, Europe will allow this to happen, seemingly not realizing the new USSR is going to be established.