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Pretty sure all the big players are working around that by hosting European things in their European data centers. But maybe the US government can pressure them to give that information up too in which case it would mean US companies that have or use private data shouldnt be allowed to operate in Europe

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The CLOUD ACT was passed explicitly because Microsoft argued that data hosted on European servers was out of reach of the US government.

Ah well in that case it seems that no American company with private data should be allowed to do business in Europe if we look at the recent laws in Europe and this American one?

It's more complicated than that, for now it looks like courts will decide on a service by service basis.

What does the CLOUD ACT do?

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