FBI Spying On Google Users

[SuperTaz]

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/03/06/fbi-ecretly-spying-on-google-users-company-reveals/

 

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/US/

 

The FBI used National Security Letters -- a form of surveillance that privacy watchdogs call “frightening and invasive” -- to surreptitiously seek information on Google users, the web giant has just revealed.

 

“Serious concerns and questions remain about the use of NSLs,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Dan Auerbach and Eva Galperin wrote. For one thing, the agency issued 16,511 National Security Letters in 2011, the last year for which data was available. But Google was gagged from saying just how many letters it received -- leaving key questions unanswered.

[SuperTaz]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/16/judge-rules-secret-fbi-letters-unconstitutional/?test=latestnews

 

A federal judge has struck down a set of laws allowing the FBI to issue so-called national security letters to banks, phone companies and other businesses demanding customer information.

 

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said the laws violate the First Amendment and the separation of powers principles and ordered the government to stop issuing the secretive letters or enforcing their gag orders, The Wall Street Journal reported.

[Chaos1907]

Where is the probable cause before the District Judge said that it violated the first amendment?

[Hillhopper]

Does that really suprise you, it shouldn't. If the people knew what all the gov was doing they would be pissed. The monster has broken out of the cage, and it's gonna be hard to get it back in.