The man became a suspect because location data from his Android phone was swept up in a surveillance dragnet called a geofence warrant.
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Microsoft deluged with support in its email privacy battle against US government
75 amicus briefs show the industry’s fierce belief that the US is overreaching in its demands to get email off an Irish server.
Microsoft: US would be outraged if another nation ransacked its servers
That’s exactly what the US is doing, Microsoft says: trying to sidestep international law by demanding a customer’s email from servers in another country. 
Your Gmail account is fair game for cops or feds, says US judge
A New York court on Thursday opened up our entire Gmail accounts to feds or cops with warrants, in spite of two recent decisions that went against similar requests. 
Facebook’s facing a losing battle to protect users’ privacy
Last year, prosecutors in Manhattan held Facebook up by the ankles and shook out personal data on 381 users. A judge last week said that it’s up to the targeted users to complain about privacy invasion, not data-repository Facebook. But how are they supposed to stand up for their rights if they’re never told about the sealed warrants to begin with? 