WaPo: Judge orders Microsoft to turn over data held overseas

WaPo: Judge orders Microsoft to turn over data held overseas by Ellen Nakashima:

In a case closely watched in the United States and overseas, a federal judge in New York held Thursday that Microsoft must comply with a U.S. search warrant to turn over a customer’s e-mails held in a server overseas.

Judge Loretta Preska — in a surprise ruling from the bench — upheld a magistrate judge’s opinion in December ordering the Redmond, Wash., company to allow federal authorities to obtain copies of the data, which is stored in Ireland. The government is seeking the e-mails in connection with a drug-trafficking probe.