Microsoft has now shared some details on information requests it has received from US national security agencies



From Neowin:

Microsoft stated that for the second half of 2012, it had received "between 6,000 and 7,000 criminal and national security warrants, subpoenas and orders" from various US government agencies. Those requests affected between 31,000 and 32,000 Microsoft consumer accounts.

The requests came from local, state and federal groups. Those numbers may or may not include requests ordered under the US government's Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Microsoft stated, "We are still not permitted to confirm whether we have received any FISA orders, but if we were to have received any they would now be included in our aggregate volumes."

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