Microsoft fights back against the federal government over the thousands of secret demands for customer data it gets. It argues the DoJ is acting in violation of the First and Fourth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

It’s all about the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). This pre-Web law allows courts to order indefinite secrecy under circumstances that aren’t exactly terrifically well defined.

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