That was a weird situation. Italian government asks US government for "help" with servers (well, logs) in a UK datacenter run by US-based Rackspace.
They'd still do it today, IMO:
> we are of the view that Rackspace is prohibited from accessing and turning over customer data stored on a customer’s server or other storage device in a U.S. data center without a properly issued, lawful request ( e.g. search warrants, court orders, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Orders)
They'd still do it today, IMO:
> we are of the view that Rackspace is prohibited from accessing and turning over customer data stored on a customer’s server or other storage device in a U.S. data center without a properly issued, lawful request ( e.g. search warrants, court orders, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Orders)
> without a properly issued, lawful request
> lawful request
When you write the laws, anything is lawful.