Microsoft Vows to Challenge Government Requests For User Data

Microsoft Corp. vowed to challenge all government requests to access its customers’ information in an effort to address increasing European Union scrutiny on the security of data sent to the U.S.

The software giant will also compensate users whose information is inappropriately disclosed to government agencies, Microsoft Chief Privacy Officer Julie Brill said in a blog post on Thursday.

Microsoft is one of a number of big tech companies working to continue to legally send data to the U.S. after a landmark EU courtjudgment in July overturned the primary system used to move information from Europe to the U.S., ...