Over a year following enactment of the U.S. “Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data” or CLOUD Act, significant questions remain unanswered about the law and its potential impact on global investigations involving cloud stored...more
7/22/2019
/ Bilateral Agreements ,
CLOUD Act ,
Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) ,
Cloud Storage ,
Comity ,
Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Act 2019 (the COPO Act) ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Customer Information ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
ECPA ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
EU ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
France ,
International Litigation ,
International Treaties ,
Law Enforcement ,
Qualified Foreign Governments (QFGs) ,
Self-Reporting ,
Stored Communications Act ,
Subpoenas ,
UK ,
Warrants ,
White Papers
The CLOUD Act resolves the central issue in United States v. Microsoft — U.S. law enforcement agencies now have explicit legal authority to obtain electronic data from U.S. cloud and communication companies regardless of...more
4/16/2018
/ CLOUD Act ,
Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) ,
Cloud Storage ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Data Privacy ,
Electronic Communications ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
Foreign Governments ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Litigation ,
Law Enforcement ,
Motions to Quash ,
New Legislation ,
Search Warrant ,
Stored Communications Act ,
Subpoenas ,
US v Microsoft
In the wake of the national financial crisis, both the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) publicly committed themselves to enhanced enforcement of federal financial laws...more