In a post for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer's Security & Privacy, IAPP VP of Research and Education Omer Tene considers the long-term implications of an appellate court ruling in the Microsoft Ireland case. Though the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Microsoft v. USA rejected the U.S. government's call for personal data stored on a server in Ireland, in what seems to be a "resounding victory for information privacy over government surveillance," a larger trend may be at hand. Tene writes: "However, at the end of the day, the case might at best be a mixed blessing for privacy advocates." At issue is the location of stored data, and thus, Tene argues, "the decision threatens to strengthen the tide of data localization, which has little to do with preserving individual rights and further complicates the already thorny legal regime governing data protection online."
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