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The magistrate judge considered that Microsoft had control of the material outside the United States, and thus would be able to comply with the subpoena-like nature of the SCA warrant. [2] Microsoft appealed to a federal District Judge. [3] The district court upheld the magistrate judge's ruling, requiring Microsoft to provide the emails in full.
In June 2011, Microsoft UK's managing director Gordon Frazer said that "cloud data, regardless of where it is in the world, is not protected against the Patriot Act." [22] The Netherlands promptly ruled out US cloud suppliers from Dutch government contracts, and even considered a ban on Microsoft- and Google-provided cloud contracts.
The right of access, also referred to as right to access and (data) subject access, is one of the most fundamental rights in data protection laws around the world. For instance, the United States, Singapore, Brazil, and countries in Europe have all developed laws that regulate access to personal data as privacy protection.
In 2014, after Microsoft was held in contempt of court after refusing to hand over the required foreign data, [40] Microsoft filed a Freedom of Information request on September 22, 2014, regarding a contract between law firm Quinn Emmanuel Urqhart and Sullivan and the IRS; when IRS did not respond within the required 20 day period (the IRS ...
An acceptable use policy (AUP) (also acceptable usage policy or fair use policy (FUP)) is a set of rules applied by the owner, creator, possessor or administrator of a computer network, website, or service that restricts the ways in which the network, website or system may be used and sets guidelines as to how it should be used.
Remote Data Services (RDS) allowed the retrieval of a set of data from the server, which the client then altered in some way and then sent back to the server for further processing. [31] With the popular adoption of Transact-SQL , which extends SQL with such programming constructs as loops and conditional statements, this became less necessary ...
The Data Protection Directive, officially Directive 95/46/EC, enacted in October 1995, was a European Union directive which regulated the processing of personal data within the European Union (EU) and the free movement of such data. The Data Protection Directive was an important component of EU privacy and human rights law.
The case was dropped by Microsoft in October 2017 after policy changes at the Department of Justice. [7] [3] [6] [5] [8] [9] Although no laws were changed, [3] the new DOJ policy "changed data request rules on alerting Internet users about agencies accessing their information," and mandated defined periods of time for secrecy orders from the ...