The U.S. Supreme Court April 17 ended a dispute between Microsoft Corp. and the Justice Department, but that won’t stop electronic communication providers and law enforcement from fighting over access to data stored abroad.
Cloud computing, electronic communications, and internet service providers scored a victory when the Supreme Court ended a dispute between Microsoft and Justice over data stored overseas. The decision to moot the case provides clarity to companies that are served with Stored Communications Act (SCA) orders because law enforcement must follow a more restrictive set of rules under the CLOUD Act to obtain such data.
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