Microsoft has the court enforced that the information about secret requests from the FBI to provide information may disclose it. The case was about data from a customer that Office 365 from Microsoft. Microsoft had to 2013 information from the online Office service to hand.
Technology companies call for months that they are more transparent about their duty to data to be handed over at the request of the FBI. The national security letters. The tech may not even communicate that they such requests have been received.
If the FBI proves that the dataopvragingen in the context of research on terrorism to take place, in addition, no consent of a judge is required. The court found, however, that the public has a right to know that Microsoft such requests will receive. Microsoft’s object on the security letter and an agreement with the ministry of Justice should, therefore, be released. Microsoft has permission of the court is an important step in the fight for more openness. Previously got Google, for example, to zero in on the petition.
The case went on dataopvragingen with respect to an unnamed company that Microsoft’s online Office 365 suite used for e-mail and office tasks. Microsoft fought the national security letter because it is in contradiction with the first amendment of the Us constitution would be, and then the FBI, the inquiry withdrew.
Microsoft stopped not, however, and wanted the judge to force the information about the withdrawals could release. The court of Seattle agreed. Microsoft shows himself delighted with the verdict. “Happy overheidsopvragingen for data from enterprise customers is very rare. We need not, therefore, rarely about this kind of issues to litigate,” says Microsoft.
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