Supreme Court Could Limit Law Enforcement's Reach in the Cloud

Nextgov: Government attorneys will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to decide for the first time Tuesday how far U.S. warrants can reach into the global data storage networks maintained by modern internet companies.

Whatever the court decides, it’s likely to ratchet up pressure on Congress to finally update the three-decade-old law that tech companies and national security hawks both agree is ill-suited for an era of global internet firms and cloud computing.

In the case at issue, United States vs. Microsoft, the Washington state tech giant refused to comply with a Justice Department warrant for customer emails stored in a data center in Dublin.

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