Obama administration says the world’s servers are ours
Found on Ars Technica on Tuesday, 15 July 2014
President Barack Obama's administration claims that any company with operations in the United States must comply with valid warrants for data, even if the content is stored overseas.
"Congress has not authorized the issuance of warrants that reach outside US territory,” Microsoft’s attorneys wrote. “The government cannot seek and a court cannot issue a warrant allowing federal agents to break down the doors of Microsoft’s Dublin facility."
Just wait until China and Russia make similar demands to get data stored on servers located in the US. Suddenly that will be an entirely different matter. If something isn't located on your territory, you have no control over it, or legal access to it, simple as that. Nobody wants even more snooping and data collection.