The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would hear a major digital privacy case that will determine whether law enforcement officials can demand user data stored by technology companies in other countries.
In 2013, federal investigators obtained a warrant for emails and identifying information tied to a Microsoft Outlook account they believed was being used to organize drug trafficking. The problem was that the emails were stored overseas in Ireland, where the anonymous user of the account registered as a resident.
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If the court sides with the Department of Justice lawyers in this new case, the government will have unfettered access to the data tech companies store all over the world, provided it has a warrant. During the appeals court case, Microsoft's lawyers argued that the US is essentially trying to say that its laws extend across borders.
A superpower can demand all the extraterritoriality it wants.
(Score: 2) by ilsa on Tuesday October 17 2017, @09:33PM (7 children)
Are you using an autocorrect macro to convert all occurrences of Microsoft and MS to Micro$oft and M$?
It's awfully consistent to be simple trolling.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @10:52PM
Choose another word, honey.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Osamabobama on Tuesday October 17 2017, @11:40PM (4 children)
I started wondering if doing that with the dollar sign was still a thing. It really took me back...
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday October 17 2017, @11:55PM (1 child)
I think I $lipped it into a $ummary one time. U$er$ were incen$ed.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @01:33AM
Yeah, that's what got Assange in trouble in Sweden.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @01:11PM
What about micros~1?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @06:59PM
Why should people stop using m$? It denotes their essence. Not exclusively, alright, so what?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday October 17 2017, @11:57PM
$uddenly, an innocent po$t about multiple $clero$i$ i$ tainted by computer politic$!
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