US magistrate rules Google must comply with FBI search warrants seeking customer emails stored on servers outside of the United States. Last year, Microsoft won a case which ruled that the US government cannot force tech companies to hand over their non-US customers’ data to the FBI or any other federal authorities. Judge Thomas Rueter in Philadelphia ruled that transferring emails from outside servers so FBI could read them locally as part of a domestic fraud probe didn’t qualify as a seizure because there’s “no meaningful interference” with account holder’s “possessory interest” in the data sought.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2017/02/surveillance-google-fbi.html