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2021年10月04日

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憤怒的微軟

繼蘋果之后，微軟也因用戶隱私安全的問題跟美國政府杠上了，而這次還正式起訴了美國政府。微軟表示，政府部門禁止科技公司向用戶透露他們的數(shù)據(jù)何時被聯(lián)邦機(jī)構(gòu)審查的做法違背了美國憲法。

測試中可能遇到的詞匯和知識：

sue控告；請求[s(j)u?]

DoJ司法部（Department of Justice）

attorney-general司法部長；總檢察長

gag塞住…的口；鉗制…的言論[g?g]

invasive侵略性的[?n've?s?v]

compel強(qiáng)迫，迫使[k?m'pel]

antiquated過時的；陳舊的['?nt?kwe?t?d]

Microsoft sues DoJ over ‘secrecy orders'（489words）

By Leslie Hook in San Francisco

Microsoft is suing the Department of Justice over its requests to access customer data stored in the cloud, expanding the fight between US technology companies and Washington over privacy concerns.

Microsoft's lawsuit takes aim at the DoJ's practice of issuing “secrecy orders” that ban Microsoft from telling customers when their information is being accessed by the government. It names Loretta Lynch, the US attorney-general, as a defendant.

Microsoft says this practice, which is legal under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, violates its customers' Fourth Amendment right to know when they are being searched and violates Microsoft's First Amendment right to speak about these investigations.

“People do not give up their rights when they move their private information from physical storage to the cloud,” the lawsuit states. The DoJ said it was reviewing the filing.

Another large tech company confirmed that it, like Microsoft, had also seen an increase in secret searches. Microsoft's case is expected to get broad support from Silicon Valley.

The lawsuit comes at a time of growing public debate over how the US government should be able to access electronic records. Apple fought the FBI's demand for special software to access the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists, until the FBI found another way to unlock the device.

Microsoft said the practice of issuing search warrants with secrecy orders had become more common as more customers move to cloud computing. “The government … has exploited the transition to cloud computing as a means of expanding its power to conduct secret investigations,” the filing said.

Over the past 18 months, courts have issued more than 5,000 demands for customer information to Microsoft, around half of which contain secrecy orders. Of those, two-thirds have no fixed end-date, meaning that a user might never find out their information had been searched.

The suit follows Apple's high-profile case against the FBI in February. Although that case was later dropped, the DoJ has continued to try to compel Apple to co-operate in providing access to information on new iPhones.

Speaking about the Apple case in February, Microsoft founder Bill Gates told the Financial Times that he hoped that case would spark a deeper public debate over the circumstances under which governments should, and should not, have access to citizens' information.

“I hope that we have that debate so that the safeguards are built and so people do not opt — and this will be country by country — [to say] it is better that the government does not have access to any information,” he said.

The Microsoft lawsuit also takes aim at the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which has been criticised by many tech companies. The suit calls the statue “antiquated” and argues that the part of the law that allows secrecy orders is unconstitutional.

Microsoft has undertaken similar cases before, previously bringing three privacy-related cases against the US government over issues like disclosing the number of legal requests it received.

請根據(jù)你所讀到的文章內(nèi)容，完成以下自測題目：

1.What right will be violated for Microsoft if the government hid investigations according to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act?

A.the First Amendment right

B.the Fourth Amendment right

C.the Fifth Amendment right

D.the Third Amendment right

答案(1)

2.What is the result of the fight between Apple and FBI about terrorist's iphone?

A.Apple unlocked the device just this once

B.the device was broken

C.the FBI found another way to unlock the device

D.Apple provided access to information on new iPhones