Un tribunale americano ha stabilito che il governo statunitense non può forzare Microsoft a dare accesso alle autorità ai suoi server che si trovano in paesi stranieri
A federal appeals court delivered a victory to U.S. companies housing customer data overseas, ruling Thursday that prosecutors cannot force Microsoft to reveal content from a customer’s email account stored in Ireland.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan overturned a lower court order finding the company in civil contempt for not handing over the data.
Microsoft offers storage through its “public cloud,” which places data from over 1 billion customers and over 20 million businesses on servers in over 40 countries, the court noted.
The appeals court said Congress passed the Stored Communications Act in 1986 to protect user privacy when new technology causes service providers to store electronic communications for customers. It said Congress expressed concern then that technology developments could erode the privacy interest Americans traditionally enjoyed in records and communications.
