In a blog post authored by Smith in October of 2017, he wrote “If the U.S. government can unilaterally use a warrant to seize emails outside the United States, what’s to stop other governments from acting unilaterally to seize emails stored inside the United States?”
US Justice Department: Microsoft Is Hurting a Criminal Investigation
The federal government’s core argument against Microsoft is that their refusal to turn over the data from the Irish server is detrimental to their criminal investigation. They argue that the actual location of the data shouldn’t matter since it can be accessed within the United States “with the click of a mouse.”
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