Microsoft, one of the largest e-mail hosts in the world, is
challenging a US federal judge-ordered search warrant that would compel the company to hand over customer e-mail data stored on its overseas servers.
In a
legal brief (PDF) filed in US federal district court in New York last Friday, Microsoft objected to the judge’s
order to turn over to government snoops e-mail data contained on the company’s servers located in Dublin, Ireland. The information sought by the court relates to an ongoing drug trafficking investigation; the precise e-mail account remains redacted in the court record.
