Google has been ordered by a federal court in Pennsylvania to comply with search warrants and produce customer emails stored abroad. The decision is in sharp contrast to that of an appeals court in a similar case involving Microsoft. Judge Thomas J. Rueter of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled Friday that the two warrants under the Stored Communications Act (SCA) for emails required by the government in two criminal investigations constituted neither a seizure nor a search of the targets’ data in a foreign country.”]

