Tech Takes On Trump as Supreme Court Looks at Data Stored Abroad
- Court to consider how decades-old law applies to data on cloud
- Microsoft says U.S. investigators improperly crossing borders
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The tech industry takes on the Trump administration at the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday in a high-stakes clash over digital privacy and government access to information stored on overseas servers.
At issue is whether federal and state law enforcement officials can use a decades-old law to demand user emails and other data held abroad by domestic companies including Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp.