Microsoft announced today that it successfully fought a rare request from the FBI in late 2013 over obtaining information from an enterprise customers, with Microsoft saying it was unconstitutional.
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Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and later, Yahoo, are making changes to their policies to try and step away from giving in to government requests for big data, which could be good and bad.
Emails stolen and leaked from Microsoft by the Syrian Electronic Army show that Microsoft can receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in charges from the government for information requests.