In this article, first published on the Neil Cameron Consulting Group blog, Neil Cameron looks at data protection, US Safe Harbor law and an “invidious choice” facing Microsoft

On Friday 25 April 2014, in a New York Federal Court judgment In The Matter of a Warrant to Search a Certain Email Account Controlled by Microsoft Corporation, Judge James C Francis IV has blown apart what many of us have suspected for some time never really existed: the US Safe Harbor law.