Tech giants finally grow a spine and resist NSA spying

By Bill Snyder | InfoWorld
 
Summary/
Microsoft, privacy advocate -- who'd have thunk it? The new regime in Redmond is taking up the cudgels, challenging the right of federal prosecutors to make it hand over a customer's email that's stored abroad. What's more, Verizon -- never known as a customer-friendly outfit -- is on the same side, filing a brief in support of Microsoft's legal claim, and other telcos are following suit.
Verizon's action occurred Tuesday, and Microsoft's was disclosed Monday. But they're hardly the first shifts in corporate actions related to privacy we've seen in the year since former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden stole, then disclosed thousands of classified documents related to the NSA's Orwellian campaign of spying.
 
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