Microsoft Legal Memo: Responding to government legal demands for customer data

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sales2099 said:

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OdinHades said:
If Sony and Nintendo are also doing it, it doesn't make it okay for Microsoft. In that case it's a major fuck up from all three. But I didn't hear anything about involvement from japanese companies in prism. And why should they? I can understand the US government has american companies on the balls, so Microsoft more or less can't do anything about it. But the US do not control the whole world. They showed us time and time again that they would really like to. But they still don't.

They can get the Bolivian presidential plane diverted to Austria and searched for no legal reason at all.

And a bunch of terrorists can hijack a plane and crash it into New York skyscrapers, completely catching the government by surprise. Whats your point?

That the US does have enormous power over foreign state governments. But not foreign individuals or groups.