Peerstone Research


Suppose the police come to your door with a warrant authorizing them to search your hard drive for certain data. What if your drive is located not in your home but in the cloud? What if, further, your cloud vendor’s server is located in a foreign country whose laws don’t recognize the authority of your local police department’s search warrant?

Can you refuse to give up the data on these grounds? Or, on the contrary, can data, like people accused of serious crimes, be extradited to a foreign jurisdiction? Keep reading →