Posted on 01/19/2018 11:53:54 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Microsoft is set for a Supreme Court face-off with the U.S. Department of Justice next month over the privacy of emails stored abroad, and some of the world’s biggest tech giants as well as elected representatives in the U.S. and Europe are lending support to Microsoft’s arguments.
Microsoft has over the last few days published a series of amicus briefs, legal documents of support from parties not involved but with an interest in the court case, from tech companies, government agencies, trade groups, media organizations and academics. In total, Microsoft said it has 23 briefs representing 289 individuals and companies in 37 companies in its corner.
The case centers around email from a Microsoft customer stored in the company’s Ireland data center. The dispute arose from a 2013 drug-trafficking investigation and deals with the question of whether law enforcement can gain access to a foreign user’s data stored by a U.S. company in a data center located abroad.
The case hinges on interpretations of the Stored Communications Act (SCA) as part of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act that Congress passed in 1986. The laws did not plan for the explosion of the internet around the world and the onset of borderless cloud computing as a primary means of storing information. The outcome could set a precedent for warrants aiming to access data stored by U.S. tech companies overseas.
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Microsoft has been fighting the Obama DOJ on this for years.
The left wants to rob you.of any privacy in any way that it can.
I am with microsoft on this.
Emails are the property of the sender and recipient, not the service company.
Proton Mail servers are in Switzerland and outside the jurisdiction of the DOJ.
Even Proton Mail doesn’t have the password.
Most secure mail system on the planet for now.
Just don’t forget your password or its all gone.
ping for later
Microsoft watches everything you do and sells the info to the highest bidder
Nope.
Why should email be more protected than every other form of record?
Makes no sense.
You got it, you get the warrant for it.
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