Microsoft heads to court to protect data stored in Ireland from DOJ search
Microsoft is headed back to court this week in its longstanding effort to fight a U.S. Department of Justice search warrant seeking access to a crime suspect’s digital documents stored on a server in Ireland.
The company, on the losing side of two lower court decisions, including one from mid-2014, will argue its case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday.
Microsoft and its allies have argued that the DOJ didn't have the authority to seek the December 2013 search warrant, related to a New York criminal case, because the suspect's data resides in the company's Dublin data center. If the DOJ insists its search warrants extend to overseas data, the agency will expose U.S. citizens' data to searches by other governments, Microsoft has argued.
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