A Global Reality: Governmental Access to Data in the Cloud

Citation
Winston Maxwell & Christopher Wolf, A Global Reality: Governmental Access to Data in the Cloud (2012) (privacy/hogan-lovells-white-paper-on-governmental-access-to- data-in-the-cloud-debunks-faulty-assumption-that-us-access-is- unique full-text).

Overview
This white paper sought to debunk the oft-repeated misconception that the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 gives the U.S. government greater powers of access to data stored with a third-party cloud computing service than governments elsewhere.