• Computerworld, Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:59 PM

The Department of Justice has filed a new appeal in its case against Microsoft. The DOJ wants to access emails of an alleged drug trafficker, but the data is located in an Irish data center. The DOJ claims that the reason Microsoft assigned the datacenter to the email account was based on "the user’s own uncorroborated identification of his or her country of residence at the time the account is created." The DOJ points out that the user was taking advantage of the system. "Microsoft makes no effort, however, to verify the user’s country of residence at the time of registration or at any time thereafter," read the complaint. "Under this system, a U.S. citizen living in New York City could have his account hosted at the Dublin datacenter so long as he claimed to be a resident of Ireland."

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