Tom Burt, Microsoft's corporate vice president for customer security and trust, will tell members of the House Judiciary Committee that federal law enforcement in recent years has been presenting the company with between 2,400 to 3,500 secrecy orders a year, or about seven to 10 a day.
The relationship between law enforcement and Big Tech has attracted fresh scrutiny in recent weeks with the revelation that Justice Department prosecutors obtained as part of leak investigations phone records belonging not only to journalists but also to members of Congress and their staffers. Microsoft, for instance, was among the companies that turned over records under a court order, and because of a gag order, had to then wait more than two years before disclosing it.
Burt is among the witnesses at a Judiciary Committee hearing about potential legislative solutions to intrusive leak investigations. "What may be most shocking," he added, "is just how routine court-mandated secrecy has become when law enforcement targets Americans' emails, text messages, and other sensitive data stored in the cloud."
Tucker was right
Et tu Trudeau? CSIS spies on Canadians trying to find terrorists that they can use? Cdnpoli Oh Canada!
Think it was the Bush & the right wing vote that made this a reality, to babysit the kids.