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US government asserts unilateral right to access private data, even if its stored outside the US

2014-07-15 14:47:54| Extremetech

The US government is attempting to pry data out of Microsoft regarding a foreign national by claiming that it has a unilateral right to access information because Microsoft is a US company. Will such tactics fly in the post-Snowden era?

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