{"id":115043,"date":"2020-10-25T07:24:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T14:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/french-court-asks-microsoft-for-safeguards-against-u-s-surveillance-of-health-data"},"modified":"2020-10-25T07:24:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T14:24:49","slug":"french-court-asks-microsoft-for-safeguards-against-u-s-surveillance-of-health-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/french-court-asks-microsoft-for-safeguards-against-u-s-surveillance-of-health-data","title":{"rendered":"French Court Asks Microsoft for Safeguards Against U.S. Surveillance of Health Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/french-court-asks-microsoft-for-safeguards-against-u-s-surveillance-of-health-data.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. company can keep hosting vast coronavirus-related project but must protect French citizens\u2019 health data from American government, court rules.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A French court has ruled that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/MSFT\">Microsoft<\/a> Corp. can continue hosting a government-run project aggregating citizens\u2019 anonymous health data to use for AI-based research, but must guarantee no data will be sent to the U.S. or be shared with American intelligence authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling, handed down last week, contradicts the stance of France\u2019s data protection authority, which told the court this month that any U.S. cloud provider could be forced to comply with U.S. surveillance laws and should therefore not be allowed to host sensitive health data. The regulator\u2019s opinion could provide clues for other companies handling such data, legal experts say.<\/p>\n<p>Companies are wrestling with tricky decisions about moving their data from the European Union to the U.S., following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/eus-top-court-restricts-personal-data-transfers-to-u-s-citing-surveillance-concerns-11594888385\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" >court decision this summer<\/a> that required personal data transferred there to include special guarantees against surveillance by the American government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. company can keep hosting vast coronavirus-related project but must protect French citizens\u2019 health data from American government, court rules. A French court has ruled that Microsoft Corp. can continue hosting a government-run project aggregating citizens\u2019 anonymous health data to use for AI-based research, but must guarantee no data will be sent to the U.S. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490,1495,1496,6,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-health","category-law","category-robotics-ai","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}