Microsoft has sued [Warning: PDF] the US Department of Justice over the right to alert users when their personal data stored in any of Microsoft’s online products has been accessed by cops and Feds. Microsoft alleges that the DoJ is infringing on its First and Fourth Amendment rights by not allowing the company to post notifications to customers when a government agency has asked to view data hosted on Microsoft’s web services or cloud platforms. That is bad says the people in Redmond and must be fixed.
Now this is not a new behavior from them as Microsoft has been fighting the feds from getting access to cloud data that is hosted outside the USA for some time now. But this lawsuit takes things to a whole new level.
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Microsoft Sues Feds For The Right To Tell You When They Come For Your Data
Microsoft has sued [Warning: PDF] the US Department of Justice over the right to alert users when their personal data stored in any of Microsoft’s online products has been accessed by cops and Feds. Microsoft alleges that the DoJ is infringing on its First and Fourth Amendment rights by not allowing the company to post notifications to customers when a government agency has asked to view data hosted on Microsoft’s web services or cloud platforms. That is bad says the people in Redmond and must be fixed.
Now this is not a new behavior from them as Microsoft has been fighting the feds from getting access to cloud data that is hosted outside the USA for some time now. But this lawsuit takes things to a whole new level.
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