{"id":15994,"date":"2015-02-19T08:31:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T13:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15994"},"modified":"2015-02-19T08:31:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T13:31:15","slug":"the-register-uk-google-strongly-opposes-plans-to-let-any-us-court-authorise-digi-snoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15994","title":{"rendered":"The Register (UK): Google strongly opposes plans to let ANY US COURT authorise digi-snoops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Register (UK): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2015\/02\/19\/google\/\">Google strongly opposes plans to let ANY US COURT authorise digi-snoops<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google has strongly opposed US government plans to expand federal powers to authorise remote searches of digital data &#8211; claiming in a letter the powers will weaken citizens&#8217; fourth amendment rights.  &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Washington committee considering the proposed changes to the Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41, Google said the amendments raise a number of &#8220;monumental and highly complex constitutional, legal, and geopolitical concerns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Google urges the committee to reject the proposed amendment and leave the expansion of the government&#8217;s investigative and technological tools, if any are necessary or appropriate, to Congress,&#8221; it said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Register (UK): Google strongly opposes plans to let ANY US COURT authorise digi-snoops: Google has strongly opposed US government plans to expand federal powers to authorise remote searches of digital data &#8211; claiming in a letter the powers will &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15994\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15995,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994\/revisions\/15995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}