Leaks reveal the involvement of "Microsoft" to sell users' data to FBI

Internet hackers claimed a group calling itself the "Syrian army-mail," it had obtained documents reveal the amount of money paid by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation "FBI" to "Microsoft" to get a meeting or view contact information for users of the company.

The Syrian army-mail, who became famous during the last period to penetrate many of the sites and high-level accounts on social networks, providing the site, "The Daily Dot" The Daily Dot e-mail messages and financial bills.

After examining the documents, said the site "The Daily Dot" It contains what appears to be an official invoices and e-mails between the compliance team for the International Criminal Court with "Microsoft" and the unity objection digital technology with the "FBI".

According to the documents, which the Syrian army-mail them to publish a few pictures on his site, that the company "Microsoft" overcharged money to meet their compliance with the safeguards and judicial orders to get the users' data, were provided by the unit objection digital technology.

In the documents show that the company "Microsoft" written objection to the unit in December / December 2012 e-mail message includes bills amounts estimated $ 145,000, spread over $ 100 per application.

In August / August 2013 sent a "Microsoft" of the message with bills worth U.S. $ 352 200, was the value of demand per $ 200 this time, and the last bill sent by the company last November were valued at 281,000 dollars.

The documents show how officials are working for law enforcement to obtain information which is considered private owners. And how the unit objection digital technology to provide requests for information from "Microsoft" to hundreds of times, and the success of the relationship, taking advantage of "emotional" with which company.

For his part, said a spokesman, "Microsoft", "on the requests of law enforcement, there's nothing unusual here," and justified what was done by the company that the U.S. law allows companies to charge the costs associated with compliance with legal orders are valid for customer data. "We are trying to recover some of the costs associated with these applications."