"Richard Salgado, a legal director at Google, said in a Monday blog post announcing the new report that the disclosure information, which ranges back to 2009, helps "shed light on government surveillance laws and practices across the world."
"We're pleased with some of the improvements we've seen in surveillance laws," Salgado said, noting that President Barack Obama signed the Judicial Redress Act earlier this year, giving non-U.S. citizens more rights to act on data privacy grievances. "Indeed, the distinctions that U.S. privacy and surveillance laws make between U.S. and non-U.S. persons are increasingly obsolete in a world where communications primarily take place over a global medium: the internet.""
- Date Published:07/19/2016
- Original Publication:U.S. News & World Report