The European Commissioner for Justice, Vera Jourova, was in Washington earlier this week to meet, amongst others, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, to discuss the 'CLOUD Act', which was adopted by the US Congress on Friday 23 March through a so-called 'Omnibus' federal expenditure law.
Readers may recall that the new American law will require American service providers to comply with American data disclosure orders, irrespective of where these data are stored (see EUROPE 11973).
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