Microsoft accounts to the FBI: the corporation receives money for each official request of the special services to disclose user information

Recently, quite interesting information leaked by the so-called “Syrian Electronic Army” has leaked to the Network. As far as can be judged by the documents, Microsoft, whose accounts fell into the hands of burglars, receives money from the FBI for fulfilling each official request to provide information to a specific user.

At the same time, for various requests the FBI pays $ 50–200 per request, and the total amount of funds received by the corporation for such work reaches hundreds of thousands of dollars per month. And yes, I emphasize once again that the money is transferred for the fulfillment of the official request of the authorities, there is no crime here, everything seems to be legal.
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According to a Microsoft representative, such a procedure is completely legitimate, and “there is nothing unusual about that. Under US law, companies may ask for reimbursement for official requests from the authorities. And these requests for reimbursement are indeed satisfied by the authorities.





From the content of the documents, it is possible to judge how often the authorities turn to IT companies with official requests (of course, this is not just about Microsoft), and how much money is spent by the authorities on such things.

The most interesting thing is that invoicing is carried out by regular e-mail, without special measures of protection.

Via dailydot