02 June 2013

Google ordered to hand private customer data over to FBI

Obama's Big Brother Government--"Google could appeal the decision. The company declined comment. Kurt Opsah, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said: "We are disappointed that the same judge who declared these letters unconstitutional is now requiring compliance with them." The letters, along with the recent seizure of reporters' phone records by the Obama administration, have prompted complaints of government overreach in regards to privacy violations in the name of national security. Last year the FBI sent out more than 16,000 NSLs to companies relating to the private data – mainly financial, internet or phone records – of more than 7,000 Americans." (source infra)

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