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| Permalink View Article Stats Google Data Shows Government Internet Surveillance Far Outstrips Wiretap Requests | Techpresident Quicklink submitted by Rob Kall (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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| Google receives more requests in six months from U.S. law enforcement agencies than all of the wiretaps orders issued nationwide in a single year, privacy and surveillance researcher Christopher Soghoian pointed out to me in an email. The Electronic Privacy Information Center reported that in 2010, federal and state courts issued 3,194 orders for the interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications -- up 34 percent from 2009, per EPIC. (Only 26 percent of intercepted communications in 2010 were incriminating.) Google, meanwhile, received 4,601 requests for disclosure of user data from July to December 2010 alone. These numbers are not inclusive of the various tools at the disposal of federal law enforcement that often come with gag orders, such as National Security Letters, as Wired's Threat Level blog editor Ryan Singel notes. |
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