{"id":8273,"date":"2013-01-24T19:33:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T19:27:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T19:27:26","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8273","title":{"rendered":"ArsTechnica: “Google stands up for Gmail users, requires cops to get a warrant”"},"content":{"rendered":"

ArsTechnica: Google stands up for Gmail users, requires cops to get a warrant | As e-mail privacy laws stall in Congress, Google pushes for stronger standard<\/a> by Cyrus Farivar:<\/p>\n

The United States remains far ahead of all governments who request user information from Google, according to the company\u2019s latest Transparency Report (July through December 2012) which was released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

American government agencies (including federal, state, and local authorities) made over 8,400 requests for nearly 15,000 accounts\u2014far exceeding India, the next largest country in terms of information requests. In 88 percent of those queries, Google complied with at least some, if not all, of the requests.<\/p>\n

For the first time, the search giant is also breaking down the type of legal requests that were made.<\/p>\n

Google said that 22 percent of those requests were made under probable cause driven search warrants delivered via the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Authorities have also been known to request information using ECPA subpoenas, which are much easier to obtain. It’s unclear how many of the subpoenas or warrants Google complied with\u2014the company has only said it complied in part or in full to 88 percent of total requests from American authorities.<\/p>\n

“In order to compel us to produce content in Gmail we require an ECPA search warrant,” said Chris Gaither, Google spokesperson. “If they come for registration information, that’s one thing, but if they ask for content of e-mail, that’s another thing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

GooglePublicPolicy.blogspot: Transparency Report: What it takes for governments to access personal information by Richard Salgado, Legal Director, Law Enforcement and Information Security<\/p>\n

The numbers:<\/p>\n

\u202268 percent of the requests Google received from government entities in the U.S. were through subpoenas. These are requests for user-identifying information, issued under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (\u201cECPA\u201d), and are the easiest to get because they typically don\u2019t involve judges.
\n \u202222 percent were through ECPA search warrants. These are, generally speaking, orders issued by judges under ECPA, based on a demonstration of \u201cprobable cause\u201d to believe that certain information related to a crime is presently in the place to be searched.
\n \u2022The remaining 10 percent were mostly court orders issued under ECPA by judges or other processes that are difficult to categorize.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

http:\/\/googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/transparency-report-what-it-takes-for.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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