A lawyer for Microsoft tried to persuade a federal appeals court Wednesday that there could be “global chaos” if U.S. government investigators are allowed to seize customer email information stored on company servers in foreign countries.

E. Joshua Rosenkranz told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that “there is a geographic limit” to the reach of U.S. warrants that, if breached, would allow foreign governments to go after the email accounts of U.S. citizens stored in servers in the United States.

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