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Brad Smith: “We have a data privacy pledge where we pledge to go to court…”

Featuring: Brad Smith, Vice Chairman of Microsoft | National

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Published | Video Starts at 27:25

When we put words in our contracts, we live up to them. And so that's one of the things. We'Ve been doing on data privacy. We have a data privacy pledge where we pledge to go to court when there is [a blind subpoena or search warrant]. And it doesn't happen very often. I should underscore, especially for enterprises, for organizations, but when we get, say, a blind subpoena or search warrant and it comes from a government, we insist on the right of the customer to be informed. (27:25–27:32)

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Asserts that Microsoft has a data privacy pledge to contest blind subpoenas or search warrants in court.

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