Europe tries to force cloud providers to give up offshore data

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Europe tries to force cloud providers to give up offshore data

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Technology companies such as Google, Microsoft and Facebook will be forced to hand over users' data to European law enforcement officials even when it is stored on servers outside the bloc, under a law proposed by the EU on Tuesday. The law would allow European prosecutors to force ...

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