Microsoft Turns Over All Data To Governments

Well, isn’t this just ducky?

Cryptome: Microsoft Law Enforcement Sales Brochure Wikileaks Mirror

• Microsoft also provides some country specific domains such as .co.uk, .fr, .it, .de, .es, .th, .tk, .co.jp
• Currently all e-mail service customer data is stored in the U.S. even if the account name contains a country specific domain.

Which means that all data, regardless of nationality, is passing through NSA equipment, and is subject to US government wiretapping.

• Microsoft‘s systems only store the e-mails a user has elected to maintain in the account. Therefore, the only e-mails provided in response to legal process seeking stored e-mail content will be the e-mails stored in the “Folders on MSN” section of a user’s account.
• Be aware that users may also store e-mail content on their computer’s hard drive. Microsoft will not be able to disclose e-mail content stored on a user’s computer – only e-mail content stored on Microsoft’s e-mail servers.