European cloud users are expressing increasing concern over the effect of the USA Patriot Act. The Act entitles US authorities to access business records stored in the cloud from any company that has “minimum contacts” with the US and “possession, custody or control” of the targeted data.
Dentons has teamed up with German law firm Noerr to produce a white paper detailing the effect of the USA Patriot Act on cloud computing service providers operating in the European Union and Germany. Please see Dentons’ News Flash for a summary of the key points discussed and a link to the full article.