MICROSOFT WINS LEGAL BATTLE TO NOTIFY CLOUD CLIENT OF U.S. DATA INVESTIGATION

Highlights

• Microsoft Corp has won a legal battle to notify a client that federal prosecutors had demanded its email account information be turned over as part of a government investigation

• The subpoena on July 14 was inclusive of a secrecy provision that barred Microsoft from disclosing the request or the investigation to the account holder

• The spokesman for the US attorney’s office decl....