{"id":25755,"date":"2017-02-09T15:20:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T20:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25755"},"modified":"2017-02-15T11:11:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:11:55","slug":"ars-technica-judge-sides-with-microsoft-allows-gag-order-challenge-to-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25755","title":{"rendered":"Ars Technica: Judge sides with Microsoft, allows \u201cgag order\u201d challenge to advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/02\/judge-sides-with-microsoft-allows-gag-order-challenge-to-advance\/\">Judge sides with Microsoft, allows \u201cgag order\u201d challenge to advance<\/a> by Cyrus Farivar<br \/>\nMicrosoft Corp. v. United States DOJ, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18691 (W.D. Wash. Feb. 8, 2017)<br \/>\nCourt: &#8220;First Amendment rights may outweigh the Government interest in secrecy.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Wednesday, a federal judge in Seattle allowed Microsoft\u2019s lawsuit against the government to go forward. US District Judge James Robart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/3457605-19717315842.html\">ruled<\/a> that the company does, in fact, have standing to sue the Department of Justice on behalf of its customers.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s case has drawn support from a number of major tech companies, including Apple, Twitter, Google, and Snapchat, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit first began nearly a year ago. Microsoft sued, arguing that when the government presents it with legal demands for user data held in online storage, those court orders often come with a gag order that has no end date. Because Microsoft is effectively forbidden from alerting its customers, even well after the fact, that such a data handover took place, the company alleged that its customers&#8217; First and Fourth Amendment rights are consistently violated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica: Judge sides with Microsoft, allows \u201cgag order\u201d challenge to advance by Cyrus Farivar Microsoft Corp. v. United States DOJ, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18691 (W.D. Wash. Feb. 8, 2017) Court: &#8220;First Amendment rights may outweigh the Government interest &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25755\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subpoenas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25833,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25755\/revisions\/25833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}