[HN Gopher] Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans' records 'rou...
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       Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans' records 'routine'
        
       Author : Doubleguitars
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2021-06-30 22:02 UTC (58 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.seattletimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.seattletimes.com)
        
       | krylon wrote:
       | Are National Security Letters still a thing? Are the requests the
       | Microsoft executive mentions NSLs?
        
       | judge2020 wrote:
       | The headline is so non-descript that it makes it sound like the
       | Microsoft executive is shrugging this off, but the testimony says
       | otherwise:
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       | > Tom Burt, Microsoft's corporate vice president for customer
       | security and trust, told members of the House Judiciary Committee
       | that federal law enforcement in recent years has been presenting
       | the company with between 2,400 to 3,500 secrecy orders a year, or
       | about seven to 10 a day.
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       | > "Most shocking is just how routine secrecy orders have become
       | when law enforcement targets an American's email, text messages
       | or other sensitive data stored in the cloud," said Burt,
       | describing the widespread clandestine surveillance as a major
       | shift from historical norms.
        
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