Security News > 2021 > July > Microsoft tells US lawmakers cloud has changed the game on data privacy, gets 10 info demands a day from cops

The US House Committee on the Judiciary met on Wednesday to hear testimony on the government's practice of secretly subpoenaing cloud service providers, and Microsoft was happy to oblige.

Tom Burt, Microsoft's veep of customer security & trust, testified as a representative of cloud service providers.

Burt referred to law enforcement's court-mandated secret targeting of Americans' emails, text messages, and other sensitive data stored in the cloud as shocking in how routine it had become.

Hearst Corp's Chief Legal Officer, Eve Burton, also told the committee that "The same protections must apply whether the information is sought in an office file or on a cloud server across the country or across the world."

He later added that unlike hardware, the cloud subpoenas could be done in secret, essentially "[denying] American citizens, companies, and institutions their basic day in court.

Turley called the belief that the cloud has adequate data protection in this capacity "a myth".

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