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Microsoft claims win over FBI, but agency still got its way |
May 23, 2014
Microsoft claimed victory over an FBI bid to keep a request for customer data secret for national security reasons, but it appears the government gave up the fight after getting its way without the company.The FBI issued a National Security Letter to Microsoft in 2013, which requested subscriber information about a single user account for one of the company’s enterprise customers, according to documents unsealed on Thursday by a federal court in Seattle.The letter had a nondisclosure provision that forbade Microsoft from disclosing the request to the company affected, which Microsoft concluded “was unlawful and violated our Constitutional right to free expression,” wrote Brad Smith, the company’s chief legal officer, in a blog post.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2158880/microsoft-claims-win-over-fbi-but-agency-still-got-its-way.html#tk.rss_all
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