David.Poole (4/29/2014)

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In today's news the US Government have decided that Microsoft data held in Ireland must be made available to the US government. If that decision is upheld then the implications for the Azure cloud are horrendous. For many cases it kills Azure stone dead. Presumably this dictat will eventually hit Amazon and any other primarily US based company.

It's a trick situation because on-line data is effectively stateless. Who owns the data, who has rights to it? The companies who put the data where it is or the companies who store the data?

Should data storage be considered to have the sanctity of the priests confessional box?