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    Amazon, Apple and Google back Microsoft fight over US gag orders

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    Jon Fingas
    Jon Fingas
    09.05.2016

    Microsoft isn't going it alone in its lawsuit fighting gag orders for data requests. Amazon, Apple, Google and Mozilla have contributed to a friend-of-the-court brief supporting Microsoft's case against the US government over the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which lets officials bar companies from telling customers when officials want their info. In theory, the brief could sway the court's decision and have it deem the ECPA a violation of the constitutional right to be informed about searches and seizures.