Microsoft, which has 100 data centers in 40 countries, was the first US company to challenge a domestic search warrant seeking data held outside the country.
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to resolve a major privacy dispute between the Justice Department and Microsoft Corp over whether prosecutors should get access to e-mails stored on company servers overseas.
The justices will hear the Trump administration's appeal of a lower court's ruling last year preventing federal prosecutors from obtaining emails stored in Microsoft computer servers in Dublin, Ireland in a drug trafficking investigation.
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