Microsoft Is Still Rattled Over U.S. ‘Sneak-and-Peek’ Searches
- Company says it’s challenging ‘secrecy order’ on data demand
- Enterprise customer targeted in warrant isn’t identified
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Microsoft Corp. said it’s challenging a federal judge’s order that prohibits the company from telling one of its larger corporate customers that the U.S. government issued a warrant for data on the customer.
The software maker and cloud services provider failed to get the “secrecy order” lifted so that it could notify the unidentified enterprise customer of the data demand, Dev Stahlkopf, Microsoft’s general counsel, said in a blog post.