WaPo: Google cuts part of team that vets police requests for user data

WaPo: +Google cuts part of team that vets police requests for user data by Gerrit De Vynck (“The tech giant gives reams of data to police. It has laid off part of the team that ensures those requests are legal. [¶] Before the cuts, the Legal Investigations Support team already struggled to handle the huge amount of government requests it was responsible for, said the person familiar with the team’s operation. Members of the team both develop policies about how to respond to requests and review individual requests themselves to ensure they are legal, the person said. Sometimes Google will send back the requests and ask police to narrow them to try to decrease the amount of user data that is provided. The layoffs come as police and spy agencies around the world increasingly ask tech firms for user data.”)

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