MICROSOFT: The Government Has A Sneaky Way Of Forcing Tech Companies To Turn Over Your Emails (MSFT)

Microsoft's general counsel Brad Smith announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Tuesday night that the company will fight a tactic used by the U.S. government to force tech companies to turn over customers' emails stored on remote servers. According to Smith, the government considers emails stored in the cloud as "business records," which don't have the same legal protection as private property. Here's how Smith describes it: Courts have long recognized the distinction between a company's busin...