Judge orders Google to turn over customer data to FBI

Our protections from unlawful search and seizures that are guaranteed under the 4th amendment are no longer valid protections under this ruling and it seems that the government has made it common practice of ignoring those safeguards. It is clear that our 4th amendment has been nullified by the Patriot Act and warrantless searches are being allowed in spite of our 4th amendment protections.

SAN FRANCISCO – A federal judge has ruled that Google Inc. must comply with the FBI's warrantless demands for customer data, rejecting the company's argument that the government's practice of issuing so-called national security letters to telecommunication companies, Internet service providers, banks and others was unconstitutional and unnecessary.

FBI counter-terrorism agents began issuing the secret letters, which don't require a judge's approval, after Congress passed the USA Patriot Act in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The letters are used to collect unlimited kinds of sensitive, private information, such as financial and phone records and have prompted complaints of government privacy violations in the name of national security. Many of Google's services, including its dominant search engine and the popular Gmail application, have become daily habits for millions of people.

In a ruling written May 20 and obtained Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston ordered Google to comply with the FBI's demands.

But she put her ruling on hold until the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could decide the matter. Until then, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company must comply with the letters unless it shows the FBI didn't follow proper procedures in making its demands for customer data in the 19 letters Google is challenging, she said.

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So much for judges upholding the Constitution and enforcing the safeguards that are encompassed within the Bill of Rights.

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Search = already posted:

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I searched twice for it, entered into the search engine exactly as my title says and came up with nothing. I really hate the ATS search engine........

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I own around 100 guns, and all are in firing condition. It's my hobby, I competed in USPSA 3 gun and when I quit I was a class B shooter. Same basic thing happened with guns, especially "black rifles" So we have Bush-era Neocons associated with private military contractors buying up all of the weapons manufacturing capability.

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As far as the officer and his family. I'm on board with the "no women and children" If you read back through history, OWS could turn into a Munich Beer Putsch or the burning of the Reichtstaff. This can only work if you have better investigators than the government has. Basic human rights need to work both ways.

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