Tech, media groups back Microsoft in privacy case

Washington

TEN top technology and media groups and business organisations on Monday filed legal briefs in support of Microsoft's argument to a federal appeals court that the US government cannot issue a search warrant to obtain customers' e-mails held in another country.

The unusually high number of friend-of-the-court briefs and the breadth of groups that signed on reflect how significant the issue of privacy in the digital age is to US industry.