Microsoft is alleging that a federal law which forces it to secretly hand over people’s emails and other data without notifying them is unconstitutional.

On Thursday morning, the Redmond, Wash., company sued the Department of Justice in a federal court in Seattle.

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“The lawsuit is asking for two things,” said Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society.

“That people be notified eventually, if they are spied on, and, two, it’s asking for a much more scrupulous and discriminating use of gag orders, which are now seemingly routine when they are supposed to be extraordinary.”

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