Documents unsealed by a federal court show Microsoft successfully litigated an information request from the FBI on one of its cloud customers.
- by Natalie Gagliordi
by a federal court in Seattle reveal that late last year, Microsoft successfully challenged an FBI National Security Letter.
NSLs allow FBI officials to send requests to Web and telecommunications companies requesting account information, with the assumption that the information is relevant to a national security investigation.
The NSL Microsoft received was in regard to one of its enterprise customers and it sought basic subscriber information, Microsoft's general counsel Brad Smith said in a blog post.
Like all NSLs, the one Microsoft received contained a gag order that prevented the it from notifying its customer about the request, which spurred Microsoft to take legal action.
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