The federal government and Microsoft have clashed for years after the U.S. asked for access to the emails belonging to one individual linked to a narcotics investigation back in December 2013 and stored on a server in Ireland.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) filed a lawsuit Friday in a federal district court in Manhattan against the Trump campaign, WikiLeaks and the Russian government for conspiring to swing the election toward Donald Trump.
The judge agreed with a detective and inspector in the case, who contended that revealing information on Stingrays and their use would pose a threat to law enforcement's efforts to snare criminals.
Run by Peter Cavicchia III, a former Secret Service agent, the Chase program collected data on employees, including browser histories, transcripts of phone calls, emails and GPS locations from company smartphones.
Third-party JavaScript trackers that are embedded on websites where users login through Facebook can gather their data, including email addresses, researchers found.
