"Google, unlike Microsoft, must turn over foreign emails: U.S. judge", 5 Feb 2017

A U.S. judge has ordered Google to comply with search warrants seeking customer emails stored outside the United States, diverging from a federal appeals court that reached the opposite conclusion in a similar case involving Microsoft...Judge Thomas Rueter ruled...that transferring emails from a foreign server so FBI agents could review them locally as part of a domestic fraud probe did not qualify as a seizure..."Though the retrieval of the electronic data by Google from its multiple data centers abroad has the potential for an invasion of privacy, the actual infringement of privacy occurs at the time of disclosure in the United States," Rueter wrote.  Google...said in a statement on Saturday: "The magistrate in this case departed from precedent, and we plan to appeal the decision..."...Relying on the Microsoft decision, Google said it believed it had complied with the warrants it received, by turning over data it knew were stored in the United States...