Post by J85K on Sept 4, 2015 18:27:25 GMT -4
The case, if lost, could see a mass exodus of international customers from the US cloud.
Among many of the knock-on effect fears is that this sends a message to the rest of the world. A report in Bloomberg on Wednesday suggested the possibility that China, a "frenemy" to the US, could demand the records of US persons through one of its mainland companies, such as Alibaba, Lenovo, and Baidu.
"We better decide we're not going to try to impose our law on other people," said Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith, a mantra he wants to maintain at the next court appearance this month.
Wherever you are in the world, if you're using Microsoft to host your emails, Google to host your documents, Amazon to provide your storage, and Apple to provide your personal cloud, it's open season on your data as far as the US government is concerned. And that's a problem. You inherently must trust your service provider, or you wouldn't use it. If Microsoft loses the case, any trust you may have had goes entirely out of the window.
Simply put: Why would any company, citizen, or even government trust a cloud company if it's subject to the whims of US intelligence?
www.zdnet.com/article/why-microsoft-data-case-could-unravel-the-us-tech-industry/?tag=nl.e539&s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61
Among many of the knock-on effect fears is that this sends a message to the rest of the world. A report in Bloomberg on Wednesday suggested the possibility that China, a "frenemy" to the US, could demand the records of US persons through one of its mainland companies, such as Alibaba, Lenovo, and Baidu.
"We better decide we're not going to try to impose our law on other people," said Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith, a mantra he wants to maintain at the next court appearance this month.
Wherever you are in the world, if you're using Microsoft to host your emails, Google to host your documents, Amazon to provide your storage, and Apple to provide your personal cloud, it's open season on your data as far as the US government is concerned. And that's a problem. You inherently must trust your service provider, or you wouldn't use it. If Microsoft loses the case, any trust you may have had goes entirely out of the window.
Simply put: Why would any company, citizen, or even government trust a cloud company if it's subject to the whims of US intelligence?
www.zdnet.com/article/why-microsoft-data-case-could-unravel-the-us-tech-industry/?tag=nl.e539&s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61