Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment
By Craig Timberg, Updated: Tuesday, June 18, 3:39 PM E-mail the writer
Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it’s forced to give the government.
The legal filing, which cites the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech, is the latest move by the California-based tech giant to protect its reputation in the aftermath of news reports about sweeping National Security Agency surveillance of Internet traffic.
Google, one of nine companies named in NSA documents as providing information to the top-secret PRISM program, has demanded that U.S. officials give it more leeway to describe the company’s relationship with the government. Google and the other companies involved have sought to reassure users that their privacy is being protected from unwarranted intrusions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-challenges-us-gag-order-citing-first-amendment/2013/06/18/96835c72-d832-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html?wpisrc=al_comboNE_b
Google is storing vast amounts of data about users so that they can sell it. Do they think that their hands are dirty now that the government wants to see it?
Ask they who they have been selling your data to for years.The answer is anyone with a buck.