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DOJ Says It Has a Right to See Emails Stored Abroad
- The Guardian, Thursday, September 10, 2015 2:29 AM
Lawyers for the Department of Justice claim that the U.S. government has the right to demand the emails of anyone in the world if the email provider is headquartered in the U.S. The department made these assertions in an appeals court in the case between the US and Microsoft, in which the U.S. government wants access to emails stored on a server in Ireland. Microsoft said that the government has overstepped its boundaries in these demands and expressed concerns for privacy. and concerns a search warrant that the government argues should compel Microsoft to retrieve emails held on a Hotmail server in Ireland.
