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Lets talk about the actual facts of the case here.

Its important to note that United States v Microsoft involved a US company (Microsoft) controlling and storing data (emails) on behalf of a US citizen. The emails were physically stored on a server that was located in Ireland. MS argued that a US judge doesn't have the authority to issue a warrant for data that is stored outside the United States and the FBI needed to go through cross-boarder channels.

I haven't read the bill but everything I read about the CLOUD Act seems to indicate that the act is meant to apply to US companies and US persons, not to foreigners as a rule. It's an extremely unjustified jump to conclude that "all data stored at any of the large cloud providers fall[s] under US jurisdictions." Unless you have more information than me that you aren't sharing.




I referred to "any of the large cloud providers" because they're all US companies (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr). Not sure if the case would've been very different if it had been for data of a foreign citizen. But from what I read, the fact that Microsoft had sole control of the data was important, and that would apply to EU citizens as well. But that might change under the Cloud Act.




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