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Article

28 Jan 2015

Author:
Ed Pilkington & Dominic Rushe, Guardian (UK)

Google reveals it handed over digital data of Wikileaks staff to US Govt.

"WikiLeaks demands answers after Google hands staff emails to US government", 25 January 2015

...Google took almost three years to disclose to the open information group WikiLeaks that it had handed over emails and other digital data belonging to three of its staffers to the US government, under a secret search warrant issued by a federal judge...Google told the Guardian it does not talk about individual cases, to “help protect all our users”. A spokesperson for the company said: “We follow the law like any other company...[Also refers to Twitter]