US vs Microsoft: Executing search warrants across borders
(WorldNews Politics)

14/12/2017 9:00am The New Zealand Privacy Commissioner has filed a submission in the United States Supreme Court in a case concerning the execution of a US search warrant to access information held in servers outside the United States. This case potentially has significant implications, including for individuals and companies in New Zealand, as in other countries. It could also have a wider and longer term impact on how data protection law is interpreted, applied and developed. The case on appeal, United States v Microsoft, concerns a search warrant granted by a US Federal Court under the Stored Communications Act 1986...