"We conclude that Congress did not intend the SCA’s warrant provisions to apply extraterritorially," the judges said. The December 2013 warrant directed Microsoft to turn over the contents of an email account used by a suspected drug trafficker. SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft has scored a big victory on a keenly watched privacy battlefront, with a US appeals court exonerating the company for refusing to give police user data stored overseas. The warrant had been issued under provisions of Stored Communications Act (SCA) legislation enacted as part of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986. Local law rulesMicrosoft welcomed the decision, saying it helped insure people’s privacy rights are protected by laws in their own countries.

Source: Viet Nam News July 14, 2016 21:11 UTC