Microsoft takes a stand against the US government on data privacy

[Conniff]

Microsoft has taken a stand against the US Government and put itself into contempt by refusing to hand over data stored on it's Irish cloud servers to the NSA.

 

 

More and more companies are using the cloud and if they can't rely on privacy and secrecy of their commercially sensitive data, they will stop using the cloud for storage.

 

 

Microsoft has a number of allies include Apple, Google, Dropbox, and Amazon.

 

 

May they win for all our sakes. If business stops using the cloud, there will not be enough income to maintain the services just for the public storing music and pictures so they will close.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxNZRSuuTzg

[citizenB]

Good for Microsoft, if the US government were to reciprocate then I would say fine.. but they don't.

[Guest]

an ms uturn?

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/05/14/microsoft-openly-offered-cloud-data-fbi-and-nsa/

http://www.scmagazineuk.com/microsoft-says-nsa-spying-hit-trust-in-the-cloud/article/376564/

[Conniff]

There is a lot of guess work there and I certainly would take with a big pinch of salt anything that a 'Traitor' says.

 

 

There is a difference blocking US data from the authorities and blocking foreign data from US authorities. Just because the company is US it doesn't necessarily follow that the data held in foreign server houses comes under the jurisdiction of the US.

This is what MS and others are saying, you can't take by force something from another sovereign country ie Ireland.

[Guest]

it was said in the first link that it was a 'hint'

 

ps you call 'him' a 'traitor', but he has poss exposed things re privacy invasions, such privacy which you are championing the protection of!

 

depends what jurisdiction applies, not where the data comes from/is held.

[TraineeAngel66]

I don't like cloud storage, I prefer the good ole' fashioned external disc drives! You can never tell who can see what you put on the web. I mean, agreed it is handy to store stuff on the internet which is one huge hard drive after all but anyone can snoop on the data-which I suspect the nsa are trying to do?