SAN FRANCISCO—A federal magistrate judge in San Jose has refused to sign off on an indefinite gag order prohibiting Microsoft Corp. from disclosing a warrant for access to a Hotmail account holder’s email.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal, who has previously pushed back against government requests for electronic surveillance, ruled Nov. 25 that investigators are not entitled to delay notification without specifying an end point.
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