"Google’s head of law enforcement and information security, Richard Salgado, vehemently disagreed with the SEC, saying doing away with the warrant requirement would threaten constitutional privacy protections.
“It makes little sense, however, to enact a bright-line, warrant-for-content standard while simultaneously creating a new carve-out that would eviscerate that bright-line rule,” he stated in written testimony at the same hearing.
Mr. Salgado added: “The power to compel providers to disclose the content of users’ communications should be reserved for criminal cases. Congress should be deeply skeptical of efforts to draft around the Fourth Amendment, which is what some governmental entities are asking it to do.”"
- Date Published:09/16/2015
- Original Publication:The Wall Street Journal