Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Bill Gates Says U.S. Needs Limits on Covert Email Searches


Bill Gates said on Monday that no one was an "absolutist" on either side of the digital privacy debate, but the co-founder of Microsoft said he supports his company's lawsuit against the U.S. government seeking the freedom to tell customers when federal agencies have sought their data. 

"There probably are some cases where (the government) should be able to go in covertly and get information about a company's email," Gates said at a Reuters Newsmaker event in Washington. 

"But the position Microsoft is taking in this suit is that it should be extraordinary and it shouldn't be a matter of course that there is a gag order automatically put in," he said in an interview with Reuters Editor-  

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Source: NBC News

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