Google says it fought gag orders in WikiLeaks investigation
(WashPost):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/google-says-it-fought-gag-orders-in-wikileaks-investigation/2015/01/28/e62bfd04-a5c9-11e4-a06b-9df2002b86a0_story.html
Google has fought all gag orders preventing it from telling customers
that their e-mails and other data were sought by the U.S. government
in a long-running investigation of the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks,
which published leaked diplomatic cables and military documents, an
attorney representing the tech firm said this week. The tech firm's
challenges date to January 2011 and include an attempt to overturn gag
orders accompanying search warrants issued in March 2012 for the
e-mails of three WikiLeaks staff members, the attorney, Albert Gidari,
said in an interview. Google's long battle to inform its customers
about the warrants and court orders has been fought largely in secret
because of the court-imposed gags, hampering its effort to counter the
impression that it has not stood up for users' privacy, Gidari said.
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