{"id":49,"date":"2018-02-10T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T03:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/conflicts\/?p=49"},"modified":"2018-02-10T16:00:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T03:00:39","slug":"cross-border-regulation-of-access-to-data-microsoft-corp-v-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/conflicts\/cross-border-regulation-of-access-to-data-microsoft-corp-v-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-border regulation of access to data: Microsoft Corp v US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cross-border regulation of electronic data throws up many conflict of laws-related problems.  <em>Microsoft Corp v United States<\/em> (\u201cthe <em>Microsoft Ireland<\/em> case\u201d), a case pending before the US Supreme Court, is a recent example of such a problem and may have implications for data stored by US companies in New Zealand. The question to be decided is whether a warrant issued under the Stored Communications Act of  1986 (US) applies extra-territorially to data that is held by Microsoft overseas. Microsoft argues, inter alia, that extraterritorial warrants to produce data stored overseas may expose companies to conflicting legal obligations if the place of storage prohibits companies from disclosing the data. <\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand Privacy Commissioner filed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/17\/17-2\/23690\/20171213135228412_Brief.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">amicus brief<\/a> in the proceeding, arguing that the extraterritorial application of the Act should reflect the importance of comity, the presumption of territoriality and \u201cthe responsibility of each country to assert and respect the rights of those within its jurisdiction\u201d. The brief notes that application of the Act to data held in New Zealand could entail civil and criminal liability under New Zealand law, and emphasises \u201cthe prerogative of each country \u2013 large or small \u2013 to apply its own law, including fundamental protections for the rights of its own citizens, to information within its own jurisdiction\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these concerns are now reflected in a new Bill, the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act, which would provide a direct answer to the <em>Microsoft Ireland<\/em> case. For commentary on the Bill, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justsecurity.org\/51886\/bill-moot-microsoft-ireland-case-more\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> by Jennifer Daskal on Just Security (and see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justsecurity.org\/49825\/important-developments-microsoft-ireland-supreme-court-heed\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for her earlier analysis of the conflict of laws issues). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cross-border regulation of electronic data throws up many conflict of laws-related problems. Microsoft Corp v United States (\u201cthe Microsoft Ireland case\u201d), a case pending before the US Supreme Court, is a recent example of such a problem and may have implications for data stored by US companies in New Zealand. The question to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}