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May 13, 2020 - Software, Cloud Services + SaaS
Service-Level Agreement Basics
By: Stephanie Lynn Sharron
Given the broad use and relative importance of service-level agreements (SLAs) in a variety of contexts, in this blog post, we provide an overview of the basics of SLAs and what they should address. An SLA is an important part of any contract with
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December 06, 2018 - Litigation, Cloud Services + SaaS
Don’t Snooze on Potential New Sales Tax Collection Obligations
By: Rebecca M. Balinskas
Until recently, retail sellers of goods and services were not required to collect sales tax unless they had a physical presence in a state. Sellers that operated primarily from one location and offered goods and services via the Internet or other technological means thus
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March 26, 2018 - Privacy + Data Security, Cloud Services + SaaS
CLOUD Act: New Legislation Will Overhaul U.S. Laws for Obtaining Data Stored Overseas
By: Robert S. Litt
May the U.S. government compel a company operating in the United States to produce data that it stores outside the country? A new law called the CLOUD Act makes clear that, in the case of legal process served under the Stored Communications Act (SCA),
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March 01, 2018 - Cloud Services + SaaS
In U.S. v. Microsoft, a Decades-Old Law Leaves Few Good Options
When one of the most closely watched technology cases in years, United States v. Microsoft , was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in February, the justices heard arguments for and against allowing the government to require Microsoft to produce emails that the company
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May 01, 2017 - Cloud Services + SaaS
Clashing With Second Circuit, Court Orders Google to Turn Over Foreign-Stored Data
Based on an April 2017 opinion by a federal district court in California, storing user communications abroad is not a failsafe way to avoid U.S. law enforcement requests for user data. The Northern District of California issued the opinion in response to Google’s motion
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February 13, 2017 - Regulatory, Litigation, Cloud Services + SaaS
Google Ordered to Comply with Warrant for Foreign-Stored User Data
In an opinion that departs significantly from one issued by the Second Circuit in 2016 in a similar case against Microsoft , the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held that Google must comply with a subpoena from the Department of
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Topic Archives: Cloud Services + SaaS

Service-Level Agreement Basics

By: Stephanie Lynn Sharron

Don’t Snooze on Potential New Sales Tax Collection Obligations

By: Rebecca M. Balinskas

CLOUD Act: New Legislation Will Overhaul U.S. Laws for Obtaining Data Stored Overseas

By: Robert S. Litt

In U.S. v. Microsoft, a Decades-Old Law Leaves Few Good Options

Clashing With Second Circuit, Court Orders Google to Turn Over Foreign-Stored Data

Google Ordered to Comply with Warrant for Foreign-Stored User Data