Customers’ personal data – even if it is stored on servers outside the EU, as it is often the case in the cloud computing era – should be turned over by tech companies, according to a new proposal of the European Commission. The EU wants law enforcement authorities to be able to access electronic evidence stored across the EU. But the scope of the planned legislation will extend to data held elsewhere. The EU push comes at the peak of a court case between the US and Microsoft, in which prosecutors want access to emails stored on servers in Ireland in a drug-trafficking investigation.