Government requests for data soared from 3,580 in 2009 to 10,918, Google said on Thursday -- and those are only the data demands the web giant is allowed to publish.
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“We strongly believe that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) must be updated in this Congress,” wrote Richard Salgado, Google’s legal director of law enforcement and information security. “Governmental entities should be required to obtain a warrant—issued based on a showing of probable cause—before requiring companies like Google to disclose the content of users' electronic communications.”
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- Date Published:11/14/2013
- Original Publication:Fox News