Business, Media and Civil Society Speak Up in Key Privacy Case

Leading technology companies including Verizon, Apple, Amazon, Cisco, Salesforce, HP, eBay and AT&T have filed “friend of the court” briefs in Microsoft’s ongoing legal challenge of a U.S. government search warrant for customer data stored in Ireland.

“Seldom has a case below the Supreme Court attracted the breadth and depth of legal involvement we’re seeing today,” writes Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel and executive vice president of legal and corporate affairs. “Today’s ten briefs are signed by 28 leading technology and media companies, 35 leading computer scientists, and 23 trade associations and advocacy organizations that together represent millions of members on both sides of the Atlantic.”

Read Smith’s post on The Official Microsoft Blog.

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