LinkedIn fights for right to tell customers when feds want their data

Microsoft chief legal officer John Palmer urged lawmakers to make secret orders an exception when authorities request LinkedIn user data. The company asks federal courts to limit the scope of government requests and the ban on notifying customers.

• Microsoft asks courts to limit scope of government requests to LinkedIn data
• Palmer: secrecy should be an exception, not the rule
• On August 31, the House passed a bill on oversight of secret orders
• LinkedIn also litigates with users over privacy violation claims