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Microsoft's top lawyer: I have a cunning plan ... to rescue sunk safe harbor agreement

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Re: Sounds like common sense....

The problem isn't the companies involved. it is US law and its steam rolling of people's rights.

The data from the EU can only be handed over to the US Government if they have a valid EU warrant. And that is what the US agreed to, before they enacted the Patriot Act and nowadays say "ah, well, the data is on US soil, so we can ignore those pesky EU people and their silly data protection laws, just give us the data or face fines and imprisonment."

Under those circumstances, there isn't much a US company can do. Until the US Government and the US Justice agree that data held under Safe Harbor is actually safe, there isn't much any company can do.

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