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Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

The CLOUD Act: Where International Data Privacy and Law Enforcement Collide

The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (the CLOUD Act), a United States federal law, will be celebrating its two-year anniversary on March 23, 2020. It was effectively, and primarily, an amendment to the Stored...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

The CLOUD Act - A cross-border data access agreement rises from the fog

On October 3, 2019, the United States and the United Kingdom entered into the world’s first ever agreement (the Agreement) under the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (the CLOUD Act), the text of which has now become...more

Dechert LLP

Actual Impact of 2018 U.S. CLOUD Act Still Hazy

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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

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Demystifying the U.S. CLOUD Act - Assessing the law’s compatibility with international norms and the GDPR

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Hogan Lovells has published Demystifying the U.S. CLOUD Act, a detailed analysis of the impact of the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) on non-U.S. businesses and individuals who use cloud storage...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

The CLOUD Act's Dramatic Impact on International Privacy Laws

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Just when the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, was about to go into effect, the United States Congress created the CLOUD Act (Clarifying Overseas Use of Data). Without any public hearings,...more

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The CLOUD Act: Where It Sheds Light and Where Shadows Remain

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The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) and moots the Supreme Court's consideration of a dispute between the U.S. government and Microsoft over whether Microsoft...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Congress Reshapes Legal Requirements for International Access to Communications Information with the CLOUD Act

On April 17, 2018, at the request of both sides of United States v. Microsoft Corp., the U.S. Supreme Court remanded and dismissed one of the most closely watched privacy cases of the last several years just a few weeks after...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Supreme Court Rules Microsoft Case Moot as CLOUD Act Becomes Law

The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) was recently signed into law as part of the omnibus appropriations bill. ...more

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The Supreme Court Dismisses As Moot Microsoft Case That Had Challenged The Government's Ability To Obtain Search Warrant For...

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On April 17, 2018, the Supreme Court dismissed United States v. Microsoft, No. 17-12, 548 U.S. ___ (2018) (per curiam), deciding that recently enacted federal legislation had mooted the legal dispute in the case. The appeal...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Supreme Court Orders Dismissal of Microsoft Case

As had been expected following the passage of the CLOUD Act by Congress last month, the U.S. Supreme Court remanded and ordered the dismissal of the pending United States v. Microsoft Corporation, Inc. case in a per curiam...more

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Forecasting the Impact of the New US CLOUD Act

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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

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Government and Microsoft In Agreement that Pending Case Mooted by CLOUD Act

On March 30, 2018, Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Microsoft Corporation that seeks to vacate the judgment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Government and Microsoft In Agreement that Pending Case Mooted by CLOUD Act

On March 30, 2018 Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Microsoft Corporation that seeks to vacate the judgment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Microsoft Joins Government’s Request to Render Fight over Access to Data Stored Abroad Moot

Yesterday, we reported that the Department of Justice has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to remand its dispute with Microsoft Corp. concerning access to customer emails stored abroad to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second...more

Sunstein LLP

Law Enforcement in the Cloud; The U.S. Storms in and Europe Follows

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In United States v. Microsoft Corporation, the question that made its way through the Southern District of New York, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and then to the Supreme Court is: Under what circumstances may federal...more

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What Controls: The Location of the Data or the Location of the Searches for the Data?

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The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in U.S. v. Microsoft, tackling the question of whether an organization can refuse to disclose foreign-stored data sought by the U.S. government through domestic warrants....more

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A Data Privacy Question that Borders on Reach

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Location, Location, Location. While it is often used to describe a key to selling real estate, the location of a server may be just as important. The United States Supreme Court heard arguments on February 27, 2018, on...more

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