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Sep. 1, 2017

Court orders Google to comply with search warrants for foreign servers

Google Inc. was forced to give the federal government access to emails stored on overseas servers after a small team from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Central District convinced a magistrate judge that their search warrant fell within the limits of the Stored Communications Act.

Court orders Google to comply with search warrants for foreign servers
U.S. Magistrate Judge John E. McDermott has ruled that Google must comply with a search warrant seeking information stored by Google on foreign servers. The decision joins a growing list of cases in which courts have ruled that warrants for data kept in a foreign country do not violate the Stored Communications Act.

Google Inc. was forced to give the federal government access to emails stored on overseas servers after a small team from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Central District convinced a magistrate judge that their search warrant fell within the limits of the Stored Communications Act.

In a recently unsealed order from July, Judge John E. McDermott ruled that Google would have to comply with the government’s search warrant for 33 emai...

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