Microsoft held in contempt while it appeals court decision in customer

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http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/09/11/microsoft-held-in-contempt-while-it-appeals-court-decision-in-customer-email-case/ [nakedsecurity.sophos.com]

Microsoft held in contempt while it appeals court decision in customer email case

Microsoft and the US government have agreed that the company will be held in contempt for its refusal to hand over email stored in the cloud at its Dublin data center but won't be fined or punished, giving it a chance to appeal a court order to cough up a customer's communications.

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The US government is way overreaching and grasping at straws here.

Using their arguments about storing email in the cloud making it a business record, one could also argue storing paper mail at mailboxes etc. also makes them business records, same flawed logic.

They're twisting things to the point of insanity.

If MS loses this, we're all screwed.