May 26, 2016
The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday asked a Washington state federal court for permission to join Microsoft’s challenge to the constitutionality of gag orders that prevent service providers from telling their customers about law enforcement demands for access to user data, arguing that this may be the group's only opportunity to mount such a fight.
April 15, 2016
Microsoft faces an uphill battle in its fight to strike down the government's ability to prevent the service provider from telling its customers about law enforcement demands to access user data, but the company's argument that the government can't force it to keep customers in the dark forever may find some traction, attorneys say.
April 14, 2016
Microsoft is hitting back at the government's ability to force the service provider to keep its customers in the dark about law enforcement demands to access user data, filing a suit Thursday in Washington state federal court arguing that the practice is unconstitutional.