"Judge Rules That Microsoft Must Turn Over Data Stored in Ireland"
Microsoft is challenging the authority of federal prosecutors to force it to hand over a customer’s email stored in a data center in Ireland. Credit Microsoft Updated, 8:38 p.m. | Microsoft has suffered a setback in its efforts to block federal prosecutors from seizing a customer’s data that is stored overseas. Judge Loretta A. Preska of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday upheld a magistrate judge’s ruling that Microsoft must turn over the customer’s emails, held in a Microsoft data center in Ireland. Big technology companies have rallied around Microsoft in the case, seeing the ruling as a potential threat to their plans to offer cloud computing services overseas. Microsoft plans to appeal the ruling. Judge Preska agreed to stay her order while the company pursues the appeal. The issue at the heart of the case is whether communications kept in overseas data centers operated by Amer...