How Much Microsoft Claims To The FBI?

So far, Microsoft turned out charge for any data to be investigated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation , FBI . This is revealed in a document uncovered by hacker group Syrian Electronic Army ( SEA ) .

SEA is a group of hackers who often attacked the website and social networking accounts western companies . The Daily Dot , SEA successfully submitted a number of documents hacked from a Microsoft email account to be checked .

One of the documents turned out to be an invoice or invoices and emails between divisions Microsoft Global Criminal Compliance with FBI unit called Digital Intercept Technology Unit ( were commissioned to analyze ) .

PDF format documents with the invoice sent by Microsoft to the FBI by email on December 2013 then . In the Microsoft wrote the invoice cost of U.S. $ 145 100 which is broken down into 100 dollars for any information requested FBI .

In August 2013 Microsoft also sent the same email , this time Microsoft is bill number 352 200 U.S. dollars , with an average cost of 200 U.S. dollars per data requested FBI .

Microsoft's final invoice is sent in November 2013 , the number of bills amounting to 281 thousand U.S. dollars .

Told The Verge ( 03/20/2014 ) , Microsoft says that it is already common practice by large companies , while the government asked a number of available data .
Microsoft spokesperson wrote in an email that according to the laws in force in the U.S. , the company may ask for a fee for the information requested data to them . " For the sake of law enforcement , then there is nothing remarkable about this , " said a Microsoft spokesperson said .
Microsoft has also said that the fee charged is only a fraction of the actual costs incurred related to Microsoft 's request . That is , they claim to not take advantage of the billing .
And indeed , according to legal observers in the United States , the practice is considered natural. What is even more interesting is the observer , the document shows how often the government conduct surveillance and asking the user data .
Were commissioned to analyze themselves known to request data from Microsoft hundreds of times each month . The U.S. government was able to request data only through an email .

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