• , Tuesday, September 6, 2016 8:34 AM

Apple, Google and Amazon are among companies that are supporting Microsoft in a battle against the US government over email data. The group of 11 technology firms led by Microsoft claim that a federal law that allowing searching private data is unnecessary and infringes users' fundamental rights. The group filed a motion against the DO on Friday. "The government’s ability to engage in surreptitious searches of homes and tangible things is practically and legally limited," the companies wrote in the filing. "But the act allows the government to search personal data stored in the cloud without ever notifying an account owner that her data has been searched."

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