Microsoft Corp. on Dec. 8 filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (New York) of a decision in July 2014 by a federal district court judge in New York, requiring the company to turn over to law enforcement officials e-mail communications that it has stored in Ireland. Microsoft had vowed to appeal the decision, and in its appeal to the Second Circuit last month, it argued that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 does not give the U.S. government the right to compel production of electronic communications stored overseas, in this case in Ireland "where they are protected by Irish and European privacy laws."
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