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The Law?

turbinedrive — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:55:43 GMT

After this "upgrade" is the email system on UK soil and therefore subject to British law?

Re: The Law?

iptables101 — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:33:47 GMT

I got confused here. What are you trying to ask?

Re: The Law?

DRTobin — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:35:01 GMT

The domain amsprd0710.outlook.com where the on-line outlook is hosted is, of cause, registered to Microsoft and the IP address of the server hosting that domain is 157.56.249.86

The following link http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm allows a search for where a server is geographically located (in theory):

The result for the Outlook server is given

http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation&IpAddress=157.56.249.86

or you can take this result:

http://www.checksitetraffic.com/traffic_spy/outlook.com

Both place the server on the US west coast so it is reasonable to assume that is the case.

Re: The Law?

DaveA — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:19:33 GMT

Hi,

Actually from what I know there are are three main server locations for Office 365, covering the Americas, Europe and the East. There may be be more than that, but it was a while ago.

As such I believe that the server for the EU is actually located within the EU, and so there wouldn't be any legal confusion. In any case I suspect that a server in one country that provides a service in another may actually be covered by both, although I'm no legal expert and it probably wouldn't be a straightforward case.

Dave