Microsoft Sues Justice Department For Keeping Data Requests Secret

In a bold move, tech giant Microsoft filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for hiding the government’s email data requests from the public with gag orders....

...In the lawsuit filed Thursday with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, Microsoft claims the Justice Department inappropriately uses the 30-year-old Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to justify forcing data storage, email, and internet service providers into giving up customer data for criminal investigations.....
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/04/15/3769878/microsoft-sues-doj-for-data-gag-orders/