News Microsoft refuses US email data order

Governments and TPTB should be treating data in the same way as real world psychical objects, and/or people, just because data can be accessed from remote locations shouldn't mean local, and international laws can conveniently be ignored.

It's high time that governments do something to protect the public's privacy and civil liberties online, instead of the constant erosion that we have seen over the last few years.

 

Go Microsoft! Tell those buggers where to go.

 

Microsoft could just sell its foreign datacentres to Franchisers and say, oops sorry we don't have control over them.

except maybe the Chinese ones :wink: :wink: :nudge: :nudge:

 

Really the data IS a physical object. It's physically arranged electrons on a physical disk. Just because you can easily copy it somewhere doesn't mean it's not physical.

It is disappointing that the U.S. is perusing this like this. One of the few times where I'm rooting for Microsoft.