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> Maybe there should be some kind of more normal procedure such as a court order rather than merely the "approval of Microsoft's lawyers", but either way they h
by leoc 13y ago
> Maybe there should be some kind of more normal procedure such as a court order rather than merely the "approval of Microsoft's lawyers", but either way they had justification.
IANAL but I suspect that if MS had gone to a court seeking an order against itself, or if MS had set up some other legal entity to sue MS on MS' own behalf, they'd have been thrown out of court for timewasting.
- blisterpeanuts 13y agoI'm not a lawyer either, but I believe that normal due process procedures in the U.S. include going to the police or FBI who can then obtain a search warrant from the jurisdictional court, and they can then examine the contents of the suspect's account. Apparently, MS didn't do that, but they probably could have. In any event, they did involve the FBI as evidenced by the FBI report linked by the article.