Microsoft Wins Widespread Support in Privacy Clash With Government
Privacy advocates are cheering Microsoft’s lawsuit against the US government over data requests.
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Tom Spring is Editor-in-Chief of Threatpost. For the past two decades he has worked at a number of national publications in the roles of executive editor, technical editor and investigative reporter.
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