Microsoft confirmed that it provided its BitLocker recovery keys to federal investigators in Guam, allowing them to unlock encrypted data on laptops, thus crossing a privacy line.  This is a clear ...
BitLocker encryption keys provided to law enforcement by Microsoft raise concerns about digital privacy as encrypted data ...
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Microsoft was asked last year to give the FBI access to the encryption keys used by BitLocker to protect data on three laptops. The company complied and warned that it receives around 20 similar ...
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District Court of Guam Magistrate Judge Michael Bordallo set a Sept. 22 trial for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program fraud ring case involving seven defendants, among them close family membe ...
The mass killing of 14 people in San Bernardino in December 2015 saw the FBI trying to access what it described as “relevant and critical data” on the locked iPhone of one of the shooters. The agency ...
In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held evidence of fraud in Guam’s ...
The disclosure underscores how recovery keys stored in Microsoft’s cloud can be accessed under warrant, even when enterprise data is encrypted. Microsoft gave Windows users’ BitLocker encryption keys ...