微軟起訴美國(guó)司法部濫用保密命令

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

微軟(Microsoft)正就美國(guó)司法部(DoJ)獲取存儲(chǔ)在云端的客戶數(shù)據(jù)的要求向該部提起訴訟，此舉擴(kuò)大了美國(guó)科技公司與美國(guó)政府在隱私問(wèn)題上的對(duì)抗。

Microsoft’s lawsuit takes aim at the DoJ’s practice ofissuing “secrecy orders” that ban Microsoft fromtelling customers when their information is beingaccessed by the government. It names Loretta Lynch, the US Attorney General, as adefendant.

微軟的訴訟將目標(biāo)對(duì)準(zhǔn)司法部發(fā)布“保密命令”的做法，這種做法禁止微軟告知客戶：政府正獲取他們的信息。微軟將美國(guó)司法部長(zhǎng)洛蕾塔•林奇(Loretta Lynch)列為被告之一。

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 andviolates Microsoft’s First Amendment right to speak about these investigations.

微軟表示，根據(jù)《電子通信隱私法》(Electronic Communications Privacy Act)屬于合法的這種做法，侵犯了其客戶根據(jù)美國(guó)憲法《第四修正案》(Fourth Amendment)對(duì)于自己被搜查的知情權(quán)，同時(shí)侵犯了微軟根據(jù)美國(guó)憲法《第一修正案》(First Amendment)告知這些調(diào)查的權(quán)利。

“People do not give up their rights when they move their private information from physicalstorage to the cloud,” the lawsuit states. The DoJ did not immediately respond to a requestfor comment.

訴狀稱(chēng)：“當(dāng)人們將自己的私人信息從物理存儲(chǔ)器轉(zhuǎn)移到云端時(shí)，他們沒(méi)有放棄自己的權(quán)利。”美國(guó)司法部沒(méi)有立即對(duì)置評(píng)請(qǐng)求做出回應(yīng)。

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

有關(guān)美國(guó)政府應(yīng)如何獲取電子數(shù)據(jù)的公開(kāi)辯論正在升溫。蘋(píng)果(Apple)曾對(duì)抗美國(guó)聯(lián)邦調(diào)查局(FBI)提出的要求該公司提供特殊軟件解鎖圣貝納迪諾(San Bernardino)恐襲案的案犯之一的iPhone的做法，最后FBI通過(guò)別的途徑解鎖了那部手機(jī)。

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

微軟表示，隨著更多用戶采用云計(jì)算，發(fā)出保密命令的做法變得更為普遍。訴狀稱(chēng)：“政府……利用客戶將信息轉(zhuǎn)移到云計(jì)算，擴(kuò)大了其展開(kāi)秘密調(diào)查的權(quán)力。”

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

過(guò)去18個(gè)月，法庭向微軟發(fā)出了逾5000項(xiàng)調(diào)查客戶信息的要求，其中約一半含有保密命令。其中三分之二沒(méi)有固定截止期限，這意味著，用戶可能永遠(yuǎn)無(wú)法發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的信息遭到了搜查。