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United States V. Microsoft Amicus Contributors in Microsoft’S Case Challenging a U.S United States v. Microsoft Amicus Contributors in Microsoft’s Case Challenging a U.S. Search Warrant for Emails Overseas Twenty-three amicus briefs supporting Microsoft’s case were filed with the Supreme Court by 289 signatories including Members of Congress, European lawmakers, leading technology companies, media organizations, legal scholars, computer scientists, trade associations and advocacy groups that collectively represent millions of members across 37 countries. Additionally, in December 2017, seven entities filed neutral amicus briefs in Microsoft’s lawsuit that highlight the substantial international interest in this case and the importance of new solutions. Those briefs were filed by the Republic of Ireland, the European Commission on behalf of the European Union, the United Kingdom, the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy, former law enforcement, national security and intelligence officials, and E-discovery practitioners. U.S. and European Lawmakers Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) MEP Axel Voss (Germany) Sen. Christopher Coons (D-DE) MEP Claude Moraes (London) Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) MEP Birgit Sippel (Germany) Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) MEP Gianni Pittella (Italy) Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) MEP Guy Verhofstadt (Belgium) MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht (Germany) MEP Manfred Weber (Germany) MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld (Netherlands) MEP Ska Keller (Germany) MEP Viviane Reding (Luxembourg) Technology Companies Amazon.com, Inc. Mozilla Apple Inc. Oath Cisco Systems, Inc. Reddit, Inc. Dropbox, Inc. salesforce.com, inc. eBay Inc. SAP Facebook, Inc. Verizon Google LLC International Business Machines HP Inc. Corporation (IBM) Trade Groups BSA | The Software Alliance BITKOM Association of German Chambers of The Chamber of Commerce of the TECH IN France Commerce and Industry (Deutscher United States of America Syntec Numérique Industrie- und Handelskammertag e.v. National Association of Manufacturers The Federation of Hellenic Information or “DIHK”) ACT | The App Association Technology & Communications Ibec clg (“Ibec”) Entertainment Software Association Enterprises (SEPE) Polish Confederation Lewiatan Information Technology and Innovation The Association of Electronics, (Konfederacja Lewiatan or “Lewiatan”) Foundation (ITIF) Information and Communications French Business Federation Small Business & Entrepreneurship Technologies, Telecommunications and (Mouvement des Entreprises de France Council Digital Content Companies (AMETIC) or “MEDEF”) Bundesverband der Deutschen Digital Europe Industrie e.V. or “BDI”) Advocacy Organizations Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) Privacy International Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Center for Democracy and Technology Artículo 12 Rights (CDT) Asociación por los Derechos Civiles La Quadrature du Net New America’s Open Technology Australian Privacy Foundation Liberty Institute Bits of Freedom Open Net FreedomWorks Foundation Civil Rights Defenders Panoptykon Foundation National Taxpayers Union Derechos Digitales América Latina Red en Defensa de los Derechos Policing Project at NYU Digital Freedom and Rights Association Digitales Digital Rights Ireland Elektronisk Forpost Norge (Electronic Renaissance Numérique Open Rights Institute Frontier Norway) Professor Simon Chesterman Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V. European Digital Rights Vrijschrift (GFF) Fundación Datos Protegidos InternetLab Law and Technology Center CEI Fundación Karisma CATO Foundation for Information Policy TechFreedom Research Reason Foundation Hiperderecho American Consumer Institute Human Rights Watch EPIC International Cyber Law Studies in Brennan Center for Justice Korea American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) IPANDETEC Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Restore the Fourth R St Institute Media Organizations Advance Publications, Inc. Freedom of the Press Foundation Online News Association (“ONA”) ALM Media, LLC Gannett Co., Inc. PEN American Center (“PEN America”) American Society of News Editors The International Documentary Radio Television Digital News The Associated Press Media Editors Association (IDA) Association (“RTDNA”) Association of Alternative Newsmedia The Investigative Reporting Workshop The Reporters Committee for Freedom (AAN_ The McClatchy Company of the Press Cable News Network, Inc. (“CNN”) The Media Institute Reporters Without Borders The Center for Investigative Reporting The Media Law Resource Center, Inc. The Seattle Times Company (CIR) (“MLRC”) Society of Professional Journalists (“SPJ”) The Committee to Protect Journalists The Association of Magazine Media, Thomson Reuters Markets Daily News, LP (“MPA”) Tronc, Inc. The E.W. Scripps Company The National Press Photographers The Tully Center for Free Speech The European Publishers Council Association (“NPPA”) Verband Deutscher Zeitschriftenverleger First Amendment Coalition National Public Radio, Inc. (NPR) (“VDZ”) First Look Media Works, Inc. The News Media Alliance VICE Media Forbes Media LLC The News Guild – CWA Vox Media Fox News Network LLC WP Company LLC Academics, Scientists & Legal Experts Professors of Computer Science Azer Bestavros, Boston University John L. Hennessy, Stanford University Ronald L. Rivest, Massachusetts Matt Bishop, University of California at Haym B. Hirsh, Cornell University Institute of Technology Davis Daniel Peter Huttenlocher, Cornell Aviel D. Rubin, Johns Hopkins Matthew Blaze, University of University University Pennsylvania Brian Kernighan, Princeton University Fred B. Schneider, Cornell University Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University Avrim L. Blum, Toyota Technological Edward D. Lazowska, University of Dana S. Scott, Carnegie Mellon Institute at Chicago Washington University Dan Boneh, StanfordUniversity Henry M. Levy, University of Scott Shenker, University of California Eric A. Brewer, University of California Washington at Berkeley at Berkeley Barbara Liskov, Massachusetts Institute Eugene H. Spafford, Purdue University Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., University of of Technology Ivan E. Sutherland, Portland State North Carolina atChapel Hill Darrell Long University of California at University Douglas E. Comer, Purdue University Santa Cruz Michael Stonebraker, Massachusetts Fernando Corbato, Massachusetts Anna Lysyanskaya, Brown University Institute of Technology Institute of Technology Bruce MacDowell Maggs, Duke Eva Tardos, Cornell University David J. Farber, Carnegie Mellon University Donald F. Towsley, University of University Kathleen R. McKeown, Columbia Massachusetts Amherst Nick Feamster, Princeton University University Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh Edward Feigenbaum, Stanford Nick W. McKeown, Stanford University James H. Waldo, Harvard University University David Maier, Portland State University Dan S. Wallach, Rice University Michael J. Freedman, Princeton John Gregory Morrisett, Cornell Doran K. Wilde, Brigham Young University University University Allan Gottlieb, New York University David A. Patterson, University of John Guttag, Massachusetts Institute of California at Berkeley Technology William W. Pugh, University of J. Alex Halderman, University of Maryland, College Park Michigan Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University Mor Harchol-Baltor, Carnegie Mellon Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University University Nadia Heninger, University of Pennsylvania Professors of Law, Legal & Technical Experts, and Legal Organizations Council of Bars and Law Societies of Enrique Belda Pedrero, Professor of Ronald L. Rivest, MIT Europe Constitutional Law, University of Pamela Samuelson, University of Cassandra Burke Robertson, Case Castilla-La Mancha; Member, Legal California, Berkeley Western Reserve University Advisory Council, Region of CastillaLa Bruce Schneier Fellow and Lecturer, Anthony Colango, SMU Dedman Mancha Harvard Kennedy School School of Law Rosario Serra Cristobal, Professor of Dr. Barbara Simons, IBM Research Austen L. Parrish, Indiana University Constitutional Law, University of (retired), Tonya Lee Putnam, Columbia University Valencia Robert Ellis Smith Publisher, Privacy Robert Sloane, Boston University Miryam Rodriguez Izquierdo, Professor Journal Daniel Solove, George Washington of Constitutional Law, University of Nadine Strossen, New York Law School; University Law School Sevilla Sherry Turkle, MIT Dr. Maja Brkan, Maastricht University Monica Arenas Ramiro, Professor of Edward G. Viltz, Internet Collaboration Professor Céline Castets-Renard, Constitutional Law, University of Alcalá Coalition University of Toulouse de Henares Jim Waldo, Harvard Kennedy School Professor Dr. Mark D. Cole, University Joaquin Sarrion Esteve, Ramon y Cajal Christopher Wolf, Future of Privacy of Luxembourg Researcher, Professor of Constitutional Forum Professor Egbert Dommering, Law, University UNED Shoshana Zuboff, Harvard Business University of Amsterdam German Teruel Lozano, Professor of School Professor Dr. Nikolaus Forgó, University Constitutional Law, University of Murcia Valena Beety, West Virginia University of Vienna Fernando Perez Dominguez, Professor College of Law Professor em. Douwe Korff, London of Constitutional Law, University of Jordan “Jody” M. Blanke, Mercer Metropolitan University Huelva 3a University Professor Dr. Eleni Kosta, Tilburg Monica Martinez Lopez-Saez, Robert M. Bloom, Boston College Law University Predoctoral researcher (FPU-MECD) in School Professor Katalin Ligeti, University of Constitutional Law Jenny E. Carroll, University of Alabama Luxembourg Leire Burguera Ameave, Professor of School of Law Dr. Cristina M. Mariottini, Max Planck Constitutional
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