Microsoft has the Us government denied traffic of a customer to hand over, because the mail in Europe is stored. Microsoft says customers have lost, because they are afraid that the Us government access to their data.
The U.s. government believes the data to be able to query, because Microsoft as an American company under the so-called Patriot Act, a law that American companies are obliged to have all the data to hand, where the government asks for it, even if that goes on, for example, Europeans and the data is not in the USA are stored.
Microsoft has several objections to this practice, appears from the document to which the company objects. The most important seems to be a business object. “Microsoft has with current and potential foreign customers are increasingly more concerned about the access of the U.s. government for information”, it says in the document. “In some cases, have customers apart from the take-up of services from Microsoft (…) If this trend continues, the revenue model of the U.s. technology sector to cloud services to governments and educational institutions worldwide to sell undermined.”
In addition, Microsoft refers to international laws and privacy for the objection to be justified, writes The New York Times. It is known for the first time that a major American company objected to handing over data on European servers. Microsoft argued last week publicly for stopping this practice.
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