Published on 2026-09-09

An American law applies to data stored in Europe

The CLOUD Act is an American piece of legislation with extraterritorial reach adopted for criminal investigations or those related to American interests. This provision forces any service provider headquartered in the United States to disclose data stored on its servers, including outside the country. Thus, European offerings from giants like Microsoft or Amazon remain subject to this jurisdiction despite the data being located in the European Union.
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