Washington, Feb 26 : The US Supreme Court, on Tuesday, will hear a case whether Microsoft Corporation must hand over overseas data to investigators under a US warrant.
The case, which nine justices are ready to hear arguments on, goes back to 2013, when the world-leading technology company was served a warrant by the Department of Justice for emails and information of a suspect involved in a drug trafficking investigation, Chinese daily Xinhua reported.
Microsoft handed over the data stored on domestic servers, but refused to turn over the rest of the emails stored on the company’s servers in Dublin, Ireland.
In a fight to protect its international customer’s privacy rights, Microsoft challenged whether it should comply with a domestic warrant for customer data stored outside of the country, saying that the government’s action could harm the interests of other countries and people, the newspaper said.
The Justice Department argued that its prosecutors should have access to the data as Microsoft is based in the United States.
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