Microsoft owned an Irish firm, and the US government made MS provide
data from there, over Ireland's objections.
If MS hadn't owned it, the US would have had to ask the Irish government
to seize it, which apparently is more work that telling MS to surrender it.
--dave
On 4/14/23 06:54, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 1:01 AM Kevin Cozens via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2023-04-11 09:13, Stewart Russell via talk wrote:
US ownership is fine:
There was a big fuss some years ago about the US government being able to
force ISPs to provide access to users accounts, or something like that. I
don't remember the specifics but it was enough that I went with a Canadian
owned company. The situation may have changed since then and they may not
have as easy access to peoples data as they did back then.
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