Amazon, Google, Apple… Fox News join Microsoft in US gag orders fight
Ars Technica 2016-09-07
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Microsoft's quest to put a stop the US government's habit of demanding access to customers' digital records in court-ordered secrecy has won dozens of allies in the tech world.
The likes of Apple, Google, and Mozilla—among many others—have put their names to an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit Microsoft filed against the federal government over its controversial and continued use of gagging orders.
When the software giant filed the suit in April, its chief legal officer Brad Smith said that gag orders had been applied to 2,576 demands by various law enforcement agencies for access to user data, including e-mails, over an 18-month period.