- The Supreme Court begins discussing the U.S. v. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) whether U.S. warrants can access tech company data stored entirely overseas.
- Conservative Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito seemed to side with the Department of Justice with Alito saying ‘it is a little difficult to see what Ireland’s interest is” when the warrant involves an American company with an American citizen’s emails related to crimes committed in America.
- Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor side with Microsoft and the tech industry in thinking Congress should write a new law rather than relying on a law written three decades ago.
- Alito: “It would be good if Congress enacted legislation that would modernize this, but in the meantime something has to happen.”
- The Court decision is expected before the end of June.
- Microsoft shares are down 0.4%.
- Previously: Microsoft privacy case heads to Supreme Court (Feb. 27)
- Now read: The Phony War
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