Jan 5, 2021 · Our latest challenge to secrecy orders has received support from amicus briefs signed by our competitors Amazon, Apple and Google. This widespread support demonstrates …

Jun 30, 2021 · A Microsoft executive on Wednesday detailed the "frightening" abuse by the Department of Justice of "secrecy orders" that allow the government to take Americans' data …

Microsoft said government demands under the ECPA law are increasing in number for a variety of investigations, including white-collar cases. “We appreciate that there are times when secrecy …

Oct 24, 2017 · Microsoft is dropping a lawsuit against the US government after the Department of Justice issued new rules limiting the use of secrecy orders that prevent firms from telling …

Jun 30, 2021 · Microsoft’s customer security chief says as many as one-third of all government demands that the company receives for customer data are issued with secrecy clauses that …

Oct 24, 2017 · In April 2016, Microsoft filed a lawsuit against the federal government over its use of these secrecy orders. At the time, Microsoft was being forced to maintain secrecy regarding …

Jul 8, 2021 · It was only after the secrecy order expired and Microsoft – not the government – notified the individual about the subpoena that the company learned about the troubling …

A: Yes. All government requests for data, including any that were accompanied by non-disclosure orders, also known as secrecy orders, are included in our transparency reports. Microsoft has …

Microsoft executive Tom Burt told Congressional lawmakers Wednesday that Federal law enforcement agencies send “routine” secret orders for customer information from the Seattle …

Jun 23, 2016 · In a revised complaint submitted to a Seattle federal court last Friday, Microsoft said that more than half of all government data demands were bound by a secrecy order that …

Apr 14, 2016 · Courts have issued almost 2,576 secrecy orders to Microsoft over the past 18 months, with more than two-thirds containing no fixed end date, Brad Smith, the company’s …

Oct 24, 2017 · Legal cases: Microsoft's Secrecy Order Lawsuit On April 14, 2016, Microsoft filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle …

Apr 14, 2016 · Over the past 18 months, federal courts have issued nearly 2,600 secrecy orders silencing Microsoft from speaking about warrants and other legal process seeking Microsoft …

Sep 26, 2019 · Microsoft has waged a long-and-determined battle against over-broad government secrecy orders. Microsoft successfully fended off an FBI secrecy order in 2014 relating to a …

If Microsoft alone received about 3,500 requests in one year, then “add the demands likely served on Facebook, Apple, Google, Twitter, and others, and you get a frightening sense of the …

Sep 25, 2019 · The secrecy order prevents Microsoft from notifying our enterprise customer that we received a warrant seeking its data. Based on the limited information available to us in this …

Jun 30, 2021 · And they would expand on important secrecy order reforms contained in prior, broader ECPA reform efforts that Microsoft has supported for years. First, Congress should …

Oct 23, 2017 · It is time to update this outdated 1986 law that regulates government access to contemporary electronic communications. From the first day that we filed our lawsuit, we …

Apr 14, 2016 · In 2013 we committed publicly to challenging individual secrecy orders for legitimate business customers, given our belief that the government can often obtain the …

Jun 23, 2016 · Microsoft has significantly upped the tally of U.S. government gag orders slapped on demands for customer information, according to court documents filed last week. In a …