Mozilla is one of the companies that takes Microsoft's side regarding the lawsuit it filed against the US government. In its statement it explains that the government's efforts to prevent businesses from exchanging requests with users are at odds with “transparency”.
While Mozilla doesn't necessarily praise Microsoft for its efforts to fight the United States government, both companies have a common goal!
Mozilla says it has not yet received any request from the US government that prohibits it from informing users that their data is under investigation, but describes these actions as “stupid and unacceptable”.
Mozilla stated (the following statement is standalone):
“When requesting user data, these gag orders are sometimes issued without the government demonstrating why the gag order is necessary. Worse yet, the government often issues indefinite orders that prevent companies from notifying users even years later, long after everyone would agree the gag order is no longer needed. We have yet to receive a gag order that would prevent us from notifying a user about a request for data. Nonetheless, we believe it is wrong for the government to indefinitely delay a company from providing user notice. We said this when we released our transparency report in May, and we said then that we would take steps to enforce this belief. That is just what we’ve done today.”
Microsoft has managed to unite the entire tech world against the United States government, and there's no doubt that everyone has the same goal here .
