{"id":8905,"date":"2013-06-18T23:20:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T23:20:33","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8905","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: Google challenges U.S. gag order in NSA flap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/2013\/06\/18\/google-nsa-fisa-petition\/2435499\/\">Google challenges U.S. gag order in NSA flap<\/a> by Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Taking yet another step in its struggle to distance itself from the National Security Administration&#8217;s controversial PRISM data-mining program, Google this afternoon asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to relax gag orders over data requests it makes.<\/p>\n<p>Claudia Rast, a privacy attorney at Butzel Long, says the move may gain the search giant public relations benefits. But the court is not likely to amend the standing gag order, she says.<\/p>\n<p>The legal filing cites the First Amendment&#8217;s guarantee of free speech. Among the nine tech companies shown by whistle-blower Edward Snowden to have been handing over consumer data to the government, Google has been the most aggressive in attempts to cast itself as cooperating the least.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourthamendment.com\/blog\/\">Back to blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8905\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}