Microsoft: US government data demands doubled in six months

Sooraj Shah
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Boom in in the number of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act data requests, claims Microsoft

Microsoft received more than double the number of user data demands from US government police and intelligence agencies in the first half of 2016 compared to the previous six months. The softwar...

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