[20180223]LSB10086_最高法院将审理数字隐私案件：政府能否获得储存在国外的电子邮件？.pdf

CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Supreme Court to Hear Digital Privacy Case: Can the Government Obtain Emails Stored Abroad? Updated February 23, 2018 Update: In United States v. Microsoft Corp., the Supreme Court was set to address whether a warrant issued under the Stored Communications Act (SCA) allowed U.S. law enforcement to compel Microsoft to hand over emails it stores on a server overseas. Following the publication of this Sidebar, and less than one month after the Court heard oral argument in Microsoft, Congress passed and the President signed into law the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018. The CLOUD Act amended the SCA to require that technology companies provide data in their possession, custody, or control in response to an SCA warrantregardless of whether the data is located in the United States. The government then obtained a new warrant pursuant to the CLOUD Act and the Supreme Court dismissed the case as moot. A CRS Report providing a fuller discussion of the CLOUD Acts effect on cross-border data sharing is forthcoming. The original