Microsoft Is Still Rattled Over U.S. ‘Sneak-and-Peek’ Searches

The article reviewed the battle between Microsoft and the U.S. Government since 2016 about disclosing “secrecy order” from government’s demand to obtain data from Microsoft’s customers. Microsoft is attempting to challenge the federal orders to retain its discipline towards customers’ privacy. In the case of 2016, the U.S. government was investigating a money fraud associated to two email account. Microsoft stopped the them before they moved forwards to obtain orders from the federal judges, as stated by the Dev Stahlkopf, Microsoft’s general counsel.

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