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Offshore data storage providers are on shaky ground

By Jonathan Crossfield On 24/02/2012 · View comments

After months of rumblings around the issue of data jurisdiction, the first major crack has reached the Asia-Pacific. In January, the online community was rocked by the announcement that Megaupload.com had been shut down by the FBI and its multimillionaire owner arrested in New Zealand on piracy charges.

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Colonel Mustard, in the library, with the US Patriot Act

By Jonathan Crossfield On 09/08/2011 · View comments

Data jurisdiction can be a bit like a game of Cluedo at times. All those different locations, each a potential scene of the crime. And instead of the lead piping and the candlestick, we have the US...

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