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13,753 government requests for Google e-mail data last year — most without a warrant
The total number of users about whom government agencies wanted information also set a record at 31,072, up from 23,300 in 2011, the first year Google began reporting the data. The discrepancy comes because government agencies request information on multiple users or accounts at the same time.
Most of these 13,753 requests, 6,542 of 8,438 in the latter half of 2012 alone, were done without a search warrant, Google data show. Google did not make available any detailed data prior to June 2012, nor did it make available which requests came from the federal government and which came from state or local law enforcement agencies, when asked by CNSNews.com.
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Google’s management are a bunch of far lefties who are in bed with the Obama Regime…
wildcat72 on February 22, 2013 at 1:43 PM
What if Bush had done this?
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Del Dolemonte on February 22, 2013 at 1:45 PM
The excerpt doesn’t say how many of those non-warrant requests that Google answered. Was it all of them? None of them? Somewhere in the middle? If it was less than all of them, what was their criteria?
GWB on February 22, 2013 at 2:09 PM
They said if I voted for Mitt Romney we’d have a government that ignores the Fourth Amendment. And they were right! Example # eleventy billion.
rbj on February 22, 2013 at 2:21 PM
Goebbels orgasemed in his grave, again. His wildest dreams are realized by this admin.
Schadenfreude on February 22, 2013 at 2:56 PM
Only stat I care about is the difference between illegal government searches of Google mail, and illegal government searches of Yahoo mail registered under a pseudonym.
Seriously screw Google and all of their big government buddies. I logged into Youtube a couple weeks ago just to have a prompt asking me “why not change my Youtube handle to something more recognizable like my real name?” When declining, I was prompted to offer a reason. Oddly, “because I’m not stupid enough to make the government’s surveillance work easier” was not among the listed options.
Gingotts on February 22, 2013 at 3:59 PM
So am I any better off with windows live mail, then?
TexasDan on February 22, 2013 at 4:32 PM
Warrantless wiretaps = bad
Warrantless Googletaps = awesome
/liberal
WisCon on February 22, 2013 at 4:47 PM