Best comment ever.
must be kept on European Union territory for “essential security and data protection reasons”.
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EU cloud service companies have until 5 March this year to bid for lucrative EU Commission contracts. The Commish tender call aims to secure about 2,500 virtual machines and 2,500TB of storage for up to four years. The plan is to enable EU institutions to use cloud-based IT services before the end of 2015. As yet, there is no …
If you're referring to the recent assertions by the US that the the Ireland branch of Microsoft must respond to US warrants without reference to Ireland's wishes (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/24/irish_government_sides_with_microsoft_over_us_cops_cloud_data_snatch/), that is a parent corp -> subsidiary relationship. What you're talking about would be a subsidiary -> parent relationship, and I don't think the legal situations are comparable.