Overview
Nextgov cited Michael Vatis in an article titled “Supreme Court Could Limit Law Enforcement’s Reach in the Cloud.” The article, published February 26, discusses how government attorneys will ask the US Supreme Court to decide for the first time how far US warrants can reach into the global data storage networks maintained by modern internet companies. In the case at issue, United States vs. Microsoft, the Washington state tech giant refused to comply with a Justice Department warrant for customer emails stored in a data center in Dublin.
Mr. Vatis, a former top cyber and national security official at the FBI and Justice Department, says that a pro-government decision would produce problems of its own. Mr. Vatis wrote a pro-Microsoft brief on behalf of a group of legal scholars who focus on Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
The full article can be read at Nextgov.