Posted on 09/11/2015 9:17:48 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Microsoft counsel addresses question of US search warrant for Hotmail emails stored in Ireland: ‘We would go crazy if China did this to us’
The United States government has the right to demand the emails of anyone in the world from any email provider headquartered within US borders, Department of Justice (DoJ) lawyers told a federal appeals court on Wednesday.
The case being heard in the second circuit court of appeals is between the US and Microsoft and concerns a search warrant that the government argues should compel Microsoft to retrieve emails held on a Hotmail server in Ireland.
Microsoft contends that the DoJ has exceeded its authority with potentially dangerous consequences. Organizations including Apple, the government of Ireland, Fox News, NPR and the Guardian have filed amicus briefs with the court, arguing the case could set a precedent for governments around the world to seize information held in the cloud. Judges have ruled against the tech company twice.
Counsel for Microsoft contends that the US search warrant should not have been used to compel it to hand over emails stored in Ireland. “This is an execution of law enforcement seizure on their land,” Joshua Rosenkranz, counsel for Microsoft, told the court. “We would go crazy if China did this to us.”
The DoJ contends that emails should be treated as the business records of the company hosting them, by which definition only a search warrant would be needed in order to compel the provision of access to them no matter where they are stored. Microsoft argues the emails are the customers’ personal documents and a US warrant does not carry the authority needed to compel the company to hand it over.
“This notion of the government’s that private emails are Microsoft’s business records is very scary,”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Guess it’s gonna be a record day for opening snozzmail.ru accounts.
So they will have all of Hillary Clinton’s and Lois Lerner’s emails by next week?
Microsoft can just wipe that server clean if necessary... like with a cloth!
Silence prole. You were not given permission to speak.
And the race to fascism continues.
Just sat through an administering SalesForce on Heroku meeting yesterday and they’ve added a Region setting for United States or Europe. The Euros don’t want their cloud data on US servers - for good reason.
The United States government has the right to demand the emails of anyone in the world from any email provider headquartered within US borders, Department of Justice (DoJ) lawyers told a federal appeals court on Wednesday.
If this is the case, wouldn’t Hillary! be an email
provider, she had her own server?
Just curious.
Bingo! We have a Winner!
Had ENOUGH Yet ?
I’ve thought about this since the beginning of Clinton’s email scandal.
The DOJ can, and does, demand EVERY email from whatever corporation they put under investigation.
So why are government employees such as Hillary Clinton any different?
Meanwhile, Microsoft themselves are using Windows 10 to violate the privacy of your computer. Ironic.
Didn’t the DOJ just argue to a court they could not force Clinton or other admin officials to turn over emails
Meanwhile, Microsoft themselves are using Windows 10 to violate the privacy of your computer. Ironic.
______________________________________________________________
No, not really.
if you never communicate with Microsoft about Windows 10 they won’t put anything on your computer that has anything to do with storage. If on the other hand you reserve your “free” copy of Microsoft Windows 10 then they will start downloading it to your computer. If you read the notice from Microsoft they will tell you that, like an idiot however I didn’t. I guess I trusted Microsoft. Anyway if you don’t want it turn automatic updates off and don’t reserve a copy.
there are switches in the install and later that can cut off the communication with Microsoft
It is not the threat to privacy many here have sworn to
“if you never communicate with Microsoft”
You may sure that I won’t! :-)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.