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Microsoft has been told it must handover emails stored abroad to US prosecutors by a New York court. However, the software giant says it will fight the ruling, saying that an email deserves the same privacy protection as a paper letter sent by mail.
“Earlier this month, the British government passed a law asserting its right to require tech companies to produce emails stored anywhere in the world. This would include emails stored in the US by Americans who have never been to the UK,” Brendon Lynch, Chief Privacy Officer for Microsoft, wrote in his blog.
http://rt.com/usa/183892-microsoft-court-privacy-us/