{"id":451,"date":"2014-04-29T18:52:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T06:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdickinson.dyndns.org\/php\/wordpress\/?p=451"},"modified":"2014-04-29T18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T06:52:10","slug":"if-you-store-data-in-the-cloud-it-belongs-to-the-us-so-the-judge-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdickinson.dyndns.org\/php\/wordpress\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"If you store data in the cloud, it belongs to the US, so the judge says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article on Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/04\/25\/us-usa-tech-warrants-idUSBREA3O24P20140425\">U.S. judge rules search warrants extend to overseas email accounts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A summary of the effects of that are covered in that article as well as getting a mention on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/04\/28\/us_judge_digital_search_warrants_apply_everywhere\/\">the UK register site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically all those governments that insist any data stored on cloud servers is stored locally in in-country data centres to keep it out of the hands of the NSA or any other US government agency may be out of luck. <\/p>\n<p>A US judge has ruled that it does not matter what country the data is stored in; if it is in a cloud data centre owned by a US company then the US can demand the US based company hand over that data stored in another country&#8230; apparently any privacy laws in the country the data is stored in are irrelevant to the US.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft are appealing the ruling, good on them. Of course that is self-interest, if the ruling stands no company or government in the world will use any US company as a cloud hosting service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article on Reuters. U.S. judge rules search warrants extend to overseas email accounts. A summary of the effects of that are covered in that article as well as getting a mention on the UK register site. Basically all those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mdickinson.dyndns.org\/php\/wordpress\/?p=451\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdickinson.dyndns.org\/php\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdickinson.dyndns.org\/php\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdickinson.dyndns.org\/php\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdickinson.dyndns.org\/php\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdickinson.dyndns.org\/php\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mdickinson.dyndns.org\/php\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/mdickinson.dyndns.org\/php\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdickinson.dyndns.org\/php\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdickinson.dyndns.org\/php\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdickinson.dyndns.org\/php\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}