{"id":32002,"date":"2018-02-26T00:05:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T05:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32002"},"modified":"2018-02-25T22:36:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T03:36:59","slug":"wapo-supreme-court-to-hear-microsoft-case-a-question-of-law-and-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32002","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Supreme Court to hear Microsoft case: A question of law and borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/supreme-court-case-centers-on-law-enforcement-access-to-data-held-overseas\/2018\/02\/25\/756f7ce8-1a2f-11e8-b2d9-08e748f892c0_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_lozman-655pm-winner%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&#038;utm_term=.333b2e819645\">Supreme Court to hear Microsoft case: A question of law and borders<\/a> by Ellen Nakashima:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Supreme Court is set to hear on Tuesday a case that could have far-reaching implications for law enforcement access to digital data and for U.S. companies that store customer emails in servers overseas.<\/p>\n<p>What began as a challenge by tech giant Microsoft to a routine search warrant for a suspected drug dealer\u2019s emails has become a marquee case over data access in the Internet age.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is whether a U.S. company must comply with a court order to turn over emails, even if they are held abroad \u2014 in this case in a Dublin server. The litigation turns on a 1986 law, the Stored Communications Act, passed long before email became a ubiquitous way to communicate and before American firms began storing massive amounts of data outside U.S. borders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Supreme Court to hear Microsoft case: A question of law and borders by Ellen Nakashima:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,15,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-mail","category-f-r-crim-p-41","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32002","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=32002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32003,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32002\/revisions\/32003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}