here's some of what we heard from tom bert. if one unfortunately wanted to secretly search your physical office, it had to meet the heightened standards required to get a so called speak and peek warrant. however, today a law enforcement wants to secretly search your virtual office in the cloud. they just serve a boilerplate warrant and secrecy order on your cloud provider. that prevents notice to you. microsoft now calls for there to be a 90 day limit on the gag orders. it also called for the gag orders to be the exception rather than the rule when acquiring information. and they would like that after 90 days, the person whose data has been received by the us government could then be informed of it, that it would not be a secret or gag order that they would find out. their information had been handed over. at least 90 days afterwards. now it's important to note that while we are hearing revelations about what went on during the trump administration, people are wondering how things will change during the biden administration. t

house committee on wednesday, microsoft corporate vice president for customer security and trust to tom. bert said that in recent years, federal law enforcement officials have presented the company with 24023500 secrecy orders in a year or about 7 day secrecy orders are too often used for routine investigations based on a cursory assertion that the government has met a statutory burden. the justice department's own template does not even require facts justifying the need for secrecy. instead, the template merely asserts that any disclosure would seriously jeopardize the investigation for a variety of boilerplate reasons. this as a relationship with some major tech companies in law enforcement agencies in the u . s. have garnered fear scrutiny and recent weeks following news justice department prosecutor, obtain phone records belonging to not only journalists, but also members of congress and staffers as a part of leak investigation. rather than providing americans as meaningful notice that their private electronic records are being access then a criminal investigation department hides behind

house committee on wednesday, microsoft corporate vice president for customer security and trust tom. bert said that in recent years, federal law enforcement officials have presented the company with 24023500 secrecy orders in a year or about 7 a day. secrecy orders are too often used for routine investigations based on a cursory assertion that the government has met a statutory burden. the justice department's own template does not even require facts justifying the need for secrecy. instead, the template merely asserts that any disclosure would seriously jeopardize the investigation for a variety of boilerplate reasons. this, as the relationship with some major tech companies in law enforcement agencies in the u. s. have garnered fear scrutiny in recent weeks following news justice department, prosecutors obtained phone records belonging to not only journalists, but also members of congress and staffers as a part of leak investigation, rather than providing americans as meaningful notice that their private electronic records are being access then a criminal investigation department hides

this is more of what tom, bert said. if law enforcement wanted to secretly search your physical office, they had to meet a heightened standards required to get a so called speak and peek warrant. however, today, if law enforcement wants to secretly search your virtual office in the cloud, they just serve a boilerplate warrant and secrecy order on your cloud provider that prevents notice to you. and so the reforms that were called for by microsoft include limiting gag orders to 90 days, not having them be carried out for a long amount of time. furthermore, the company has called for secrecy orders to be the rare exception and not the rule when the department of justice handles these things. so information is being revealed about the trumpet administration and how it went about gathering the data of the politicians, journalists, and ordinary citizens. at this point, folks are wondering how this will change with a new administration in the white house and a new person leading the u. s department of justice in new york city