The CLOUD Act: Old wine in new bottles

The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (“CLOUD Act”) at its core allows US law enforcement authorities to request from cloud providers in the United States (US) data over which they exercise possession, custody or control. It may affect also data hosted by communication service providers (“CSP”), such us cloud or email suppliers, on servers in member states of the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland.