The Justice Department has asked the Southern District of New York's full appeals court to review its July ruling in favor of Microsoft's denial to comply with a search warrant of user emails stored in an Irish server, The Washington Post reports. DOJ prosecutors believe that the appeals court misinterpreted the Stored Communications Act, emphasizing privacy when the law is concerned with disclosure, the report states. “The opinion has created a regime where ... private, for-profit businesses answerable only to their shareholders can thwart legitimate and important criminal and national security investigations,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said. However, “three experienced judges already agreed this 30-year-old law doesn’t apply to email content abroad,” a Microsoft spokesman said in a statement. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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