Microsoft says it fears that a precedent could be set, leading to a "global free-for-all" eroding personal privacy, as US government seeks to force it to hand over user's email.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reiterated Wednesday to a working group at the Internet Corporation for Assignment of Names and Number that it "must make user privacy a central tenet of any new registration data system."
Justice Department lawyers are pushing Congress to clarify the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the circumstances under which it can be used to prosecute criminals.
Apple told the Justice Department that iMessage encryption made it impossible to comply with a court order to turn over real time text messages between two suspects in a drug investigation this summer.
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