Friday, July 15, 2016

Microsoft just won a big privacy fight with the government. Here’s what that means.

Author(s): 
Henry Farrell
Publication Date: 
July 15, 2016
Publication Type: 
Other Writing

Over the past couple of years, the U.S. government and Microsoft have been fighting a legal battle over whether Microsoft has to provide customers’ email that is stored on company servers located in Ireland. On Thursday, a federal appeals court ruled against the government, saying Microsoft was under no legal obligation to provide the data.

This case has been very closely watched, as it has very important implications for how the U.S. legal system deals with a world where data moves easily across borders.



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This article by Henry Farrell originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on July 16, 2016 at 03:45AM