On 4 November 2022, in the case of FCA v Papadimitrakopoulos & Gryparis1 , the UK High Court reaffirmed the principle that information obtained via Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) requests can only be used for the purpose for...more
U.S. criminal law has a long reach outside the borders of the United States. Australian companies and individuals whose activities touch on the United States—even without having offices or any physical presence in the United...more
The UK and the US signed a new data-sharing agreement on 3 October designed to facilitate the exchange of evidence and enhance co-operation between the two countries and their respective investigatory authorities. The first...more
The Department of Justice announced yesterday that the United States and the United Kingdom have entered into the first of the international executive agreements authorized under the Clarifying Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD)...more
On March 23, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, which contained a section entitled the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act. The CLOUD Act significantly revises the...more
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
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