The Department of Justice on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a landmark appeals court decision handed down last summer in favor of Microsoft Corp. that put company data stored overseas mostly out of reach of U.S. law enforcement.
If the government’s petition is taken up by the high court, its decision could introduce some measure of clarity in the multiple legal battles playing out around the country over whether prosecutors can enforce warrants for private data stored abroad in the cloud.
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