Abstract The rise in cloud computing has highlighted two separate, and often conflicting, needs for states—the need to protect the data of their citizens and the need of law enforcement authorities (LEAs) to access this data as evidence, often stored by service providers across borders. Both the US and European Union (EU) Member States have asserted that their domestic legal processes are adequate to require disclosure of data that may be held overseas or controlled by a foreign service provider. Yet, both the US and the EU have data protection statutes that will potentially block the transfer of data to foreign LEAs pursuant to these domestic legal processes. This article explores these reciprocal conflicts, considers how they may be resolved, and raises new questions about potential conflicts for UK LEAs in light of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU in 2020.

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数据保护和执法部门获取数字证据：解决欧盟和美国法律之间的相互冲突

摘要 云计算的兴起突出了各州的两个独立且经常相互冲突的需求——保护其公民数据的需求和执法机构 (LEA) 将这些数据作为证据访问的需求，这些数据通常由服务提供商存储跨越国界。美国和欧盟 (EU) 成员国都声称其国内法律程序足以要求披露可能在海外持有或由外国服务提供商控制的数据。然而，美国和欧盟都有数据保护法规，可能会根据这些国内法律程序阻止将数据传输给外国 LEA。本文探讨了这些相互冲突，考虑如何解决它们，