Microsoft Challenged Secret FBI Request for Data About Customer
Microsoft Corp. last year challenged a secret request for data about a business customer from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Microsoft challenged an FBI National Security Letter, and won
Documents unsealed Thursday by a federal court in Seattle reveal that late last year, Microsoft successfully challenged an FBI National Security Letter.
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Microsoft Challenged A National Security Letter That Included A Gag Order — And Won
Microsoft challenged a National Security Letter from the FBI last year — and won. The documents relating the case were recently unsealed, making the effort public.
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One step on the path to challenging search warrant jurisdiction
The U.S. government doesn’t have the power to search a home in another country, nor should it have the power to search the content of email stored overseas.
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Tech Companies Offer Update on Government Data Requests
Big technology companies on Monday released updated reports on the number of government requests for information on their users.
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Providing additional transparency on U.S. government requests for customer data
Today we are updating our transparency reporting to provide new information relating to governmental demands for customer data. Beginning last summer, Microsoft, Google, and other companies filed lawsuits against the U.S. government arguing that we have a legal and constitutional right to disclose more detailed information about these demands. We contended that we should be able to disclose information about legal orders issued pursuant to U.S. national security laws such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which we had previously been barred from disclosing.
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A day of action to demand ECPA reform
On Thursday, Microsoft joined a nationwide day of action to call for an update to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). We are asking Congress to codify what courts and service providers across the U.S. are already doing: require all law enforcement to obtain a warrant before demanding access to the contents of customer communications...
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Google, Microsoft Press Lawsuits for Right to Release More Surveillance Data
Perennial competitors in the search realm, Google and Microsoft have set down their swords to press the U.S. government in court for the right to publish statistics on secret surveillance demands against their customers, the companies said today.
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Microsoft and Google to sue over US surveillance requests
Microsoft and Google are to sue the US government to win the right to reveal more information about official requests for user data. The companies announced the lawsuit on Friday, escalating a legal battle over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa), the mechanism used by the National Security Agency (NSA) and other US government agencies to gather data about foreign internet users.
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Standing together for greater transparency
To followers of technology issues, there are many days when Microsoft and Google stand apart. But today our two companies stand together. We both remain concerned with the Government’s continued unwillingness to permit us to publish sufficient data relating to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) orders.
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