Supreme Court to hear case with cross-border data flow implications

摘要

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments for the first time in United States vs. Microsoft Corp., a case that lawyers and the technology industry say could have sweeping implications for data localization policies and cross-border data flows. The core of the case involves whether a company, Microsoft in this instance, must comply with U.S. search warrants demanding user data if that data is stored outside the U.S. The law at the center of the case is Section 2703(a) of the Stored Communications Act passed in 1986.