General counsel at tech companies are celebrating Microsoft’s courtroom victory on Thursday over the U.S. government, calling it an important win for privacy rights.
In a hotly anticipated ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that Microsoft can refuse to turn over to the govenment emails belonging to a suspect in a narcotics investigation that are stored in a Microsoft data center in Dublin, Ireland. The case dates back to 2013, when the U.S. government issued a search warrant seeking access to Microsoft customer’s email account. Microsoft challenged the search warrant, arguing that it equaled an international seizure beyond the government’s powers. A magistrate judge previously ordered Microsoft to turn over the emails—a ruling affirmed by U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan in July 2014.
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