Google demands probable-cause, court-issued warrants to divulge the
contents of Gmail and other cloud-stored documents to authorities in the
United States — a startling revelation Wednesday that runs counter to
federal law that does not always demand warrants.
The development surfaced as Google publicly announced that more than
two-thirds of the user data Google forwards to government agencies
across the United States is handed over without a probable-cause warrant.
A Google spokesman told Wired that the media giant demands that
government agencies — from the locals to the feds — get a probable-cause
warrant for content on its e-mail, Google Drive cloud storage and other
platforms — despite the Electronic Communications Privacy Act allowing
the government to access such customer data without a warrant if it’s
stored on Google’s servers for more than 180 days.
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