“Lisa O. Monaco, a senior fellow at New York University School of Law’s Center on Law and Security, was homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to President Barack Obama from 2013 to 2017. John P. Carlin, chair of the law firm Morrison & Foerster’s global risk and crisis management group and the Aspen Institute’s Cybersecurity & Technology Program, was assistant attorney general for national security from 2014 to 2016.
How should law enforcement officials deal with digital data that happens to be stored in a different country? If FBI agents, pursuing a subject who committed a crime in the United States, serve a valid court order on an American company, the government shouldn’t have to wait a year because the company happens to store the information overseas. Likewise, if the London police are investigating a local murder, the fact that they are seeking phone records from a communications provider located in the United States should not block them from doing their job. “