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for over ninety years. More at a d r dot org. Today, Bloomberg lawhost tum Grosso and Greg Store discuss why Microsoft is suing the US government over its use is so called sneak and peak email searches, which allows the government to conduct warrantless searches of user emails. They speak to Andrea Matuen, a professor at Northeastern University Law School. Andrea explain why the judge ruled Microsoft was able to go forward with its First Amendment claims but not its Fourth
Amendment claims. Sure, so, in this case, we're talking questionally
about an application, arguably of the Store Communications Act. And if you look at the history of the Stored Communications Act, when Congress past this statute, they were expressly trying to create a bit of a protected space because Congress essentially thought that the Fourth Amendment did not extend to this particular set of circumstances, and partially because of that history, that congressional background, Microsoft has an uphill battle of being
able to prove that there is a credible argument under the Fourth Amendment. But the amendment provides them with arguably a stronger set of arguments. So, particularly when we're talking about its own speech, Microsoft has the ability to assert standing in a way that it wouldn't on behalf of its customers because it's not defending customers rights in that case, it's talking about its own ability to convey information. Tell us a little more about it. What exactly is it?
Microsoft wants to say that that this law might prohibit it from saying. So Microsoft is essentially arguing that it's business interests, particularly going forward in things like it's cloud computing markets, are impacted and it wants to give notice to its customers who are the subject uh the sneak
and peak warrants or sneak and peak requests. So the challenge is that, um, there is a gag order Microsoft alleges on it to that prevents the gag wars prevented from telling these customers that there's surveillance of their communications going on, and also that the number of these things is in essence escalating at a rate that is generating a desire for Microsoft to speak. That's Andrea Matuition, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, speaking to Bloomberg lawhost
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