Microsoft Corp. is suing the United States federal government over orders to keep government requests for customer emails and records secret. President and chief legal officer Brad Smith said in a blog post Thursday that the company believes that “with rare exceptions consumers and businesses have a right to know when the government accesses their emails or records. Yet it’s becoming routine for the U.S. government to issue orders that require email providers to keep these types of legal demands secret.” Smith said that in the past 18 months, the...