Microsoft said Friday that it fielded more than 37,000 requests for
information about its customers from law-enforcement agencies in the
first half of this year – roughly consistent with the pace of such data
demands in 2012. Every six months, Microsoft, Twitter and some other tech companies disclose how often
police departments, U.S. agencies and foreign governments demand
customer information, such as the content of emails that could reveal
evidence of a crime. The requests Microsoft disclosed include information about users of
Hotmail email, the Skype video-calling service and Web-based version of
the Office bundle of workplace software. Like other tech companies, Microsoft has said it would like to be
able to disclose information about secret U.S. government requests for
user data, including requests related to National Security Agency
surveillance programs. Microsoft is among the companies that are pushing the U.S. government to reveal more about such data requests, which burst into public attention after leaks from Edward Snowden. Read Microsoft’s full report here.
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