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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Apparent verification that Google is pushing hard
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Mon Aug 26 12:35:22 2013
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:18:06 -0700
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Apparent verification that Google is pushing hard to be allowed more
transparency by the government re FISA, etc.:
"Open Secret About Google's Surveillance Case No Longer Secret"
http://j.mp/143mosa (WSJ)
"The Justice Department recently won a court battle to keep an Internet
company from talking about federal demands for user data, arguing that
even disclosing the company's name would damage national security.'
But then, after months of arguments, the department appears to have
been foiled by its own redaction process, which left the name "Google"
on one page that was posted Friday in the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York. The case and Google's role in it
underscore a tension between some Silicon Valley companies and the
government over national security surveillance and the secrecy
surrounding it. Google has been pushing back against data-gathering
tools called national security letters in two federal courts since
this spring."
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