{"id":209,"date":"2013-03-21T18:45:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T18:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backgroundpropaganda.com\/wp\/?p=209"},"modified":"2023-12-01T19:04:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T19:04:22","slug":"microsoft-provides-details-on-law-enforcement-requests-for-user-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backgroundpropaganda.com\/wp\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Provides Details On Law Enforcement Requests For User Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/msoftlove.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/msoftlove.jpg?w=610\" alt=\"msoftlove\"><\/a>Microsoft reveals in a new transparency report that between all of its online services \u2014 including Hotmail, Outlook.com, SkyDrive, Xbox LIVE, Microsoft Account, Messenger, Office 365, and Skype \u2014 it received more than 75,000 requests from law enforcement agencies around the world in 2012.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since some requests involved multiple accounts, Microsoft says that authorities made inquiries about a total of 137,424 accounts last year. <\/p>\n<p>According to the info released by Microsoft [<a href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/F\/3\/8\/F38AF681-EB3A-4645-A9C4-D4F31B8BA8F2\/MSFT_Reporting_Data.pdf\">PDF<\/a>], 18% of these requests resulted in no disclosure whatsoever, though nearly all of those cases (93.3%) fall under the \u201cNo Data Found\u201d heading, while a a small fraction of requests were rejected for not meeting legal requirements. <\/p>\n<p>Around 4-in-5 requests resulted in what\u2019s described as \u201cnon-content information\u201d being provided to authorities. This can include such data as the user\u2019s name, billing address, and IP history, but would <em>not<\/em> include any disclosure of things like e-mail text or subject lines, stores images, address book and calender entries.<\/p>\n<p>For those, Microsoft requires a court order, which is why almost all international requests did not result in content disclosures. In fact, of the 1,558 requests that led to disclosure of users\u2019 content, 1,554 of them were made by U.S.-based law enforcement.  <\/p>\n<p>In all, Microsoft says that law enforcement requests only represented around .02% of its entire user base last year.<\/p>\n<p>You can get more details and the full report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/about\/corporatecitizenship\/en-us\/reporting\/transparency\/\">Microsoft.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=consumerist.com&amp;blog=40783744&amp;post=10123314&amp;subd=consumermediallc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2013\/03\/21\/microsoft-provides-details-on-law-enforcement-requests-for-user-data\/\">Consumerist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft reveals in a new transparency report that between all of its online services \u2014 including Hotmail, Outlook.com, SkyDrive, Xbox LIVE, Microsoft Account, Messenger, Office 365, and Skype \u2014 it received more than 75,000 requests from law enforcement agencies around the world in 2012. Since some requests involved multiple accounts, Microsoft says that authorities made &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/backgroundpropaganda.com\/wp\/?p=209\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backgroundpropaganda.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backgroundpropaganda.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backgroundpropaganda.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backgroundpropaganda.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backgroundpropaganda.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/backgroundpropaganda.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/backgroundpropaganda.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backgroundpropaganda.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backgroundpropaganda.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backgroundpropaganda.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}