October 19, 2015
The U.S. Department of Justice on Saturday urged the Second Circuit to ignore Microsoft's bid to use Europe's invalidation of the safe harbor data-transfer pact to influence a dispute over the government's access to consumer data stored abroad, saying the development has no bearing on the case.
October 07, 2015
Microsoft Corp. urged the Second Circuit on Tuesday to take into account a European court's invalidation of the safe harbor data transfer scheme and a recent U.S. Senate hearing on electronic privacy laws when deciding whether to allow the government to access consumer data stored overseas.
September 09, 2015
A Second Circuit panel on Wednesday sharply questioned Microsoft Corp. over its refusal to comply with a search warrant seeking user data stored outside the U.S., repeatedly pushing the company to identify statutory language or international privacy laws that would prevent the government from seizing the data.
September 08, 2015
Microsoft Corp. will argue before the Second Circuit on Wednesday that the U.S. government can't use search warrants to access consumer data stored overseas, in a closely watched case that will likely dictate how much power technology companies have to resist the government's demand for such data.
April 10, 2015
Microsoft Corp. has shot back at the federal government's closely watched bid to obtain user data stored overseas, telling the Second Circuit that the international discord sparked by the warrant request confirms that the Stored Communications Act was never intended to reach private emails on foreign servers.
March 10, 2015
The federal government on Monday urged the Second Circuit to reject Microsoft Corp.'s challenge to a search warrant requiring the company to turn over user data stored overseas, arguing that longstanding case law supports the notion that the Stored Communications Act is not limited to documents stored domestically.
January 02, 2015
A pair of appellate challenges to the Federal Trade Commission's ability to regulate data security will captivate privacy attorneys in 2015, as will a dispute before the U.S. Supreme Court over the limits of standing in certain privacy cases and a heated Second Circuit fight over a search warrant for user data stored by Microsoft Corp. overseas.
December 15, 2014
Verizon Communications Inc., the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Center for Democracy and Technology and dozens of other business groups and privacy experts on Monday flooded the Second Circuit with briefs supporting Microsoft Corp.'s challenge to a search warrant that would allow the U.S. government to access user data stored overseas.
December 15, 2014
Microsoft Corp. knew its challenge to a warrant requiring the company to give the government user data stored overseas wouldn't be a "smooth ride," but it's optimistic it will prevail, even if that requires a trip to the U.S. Supreme Court, Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel David Howard told Law360 in an exclusive interview Monday.
December 08, 2014
Microsoft Corp. on Monday urged the Second Circuit to overturn a ruling that the government can use search warrants to obtain customer data stored outside the U.S., arguing that Congress never intended for the Electronic Communications Privacy Act to reach overseas.