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A U.S. judge has ordered Google to hand over emails stored outside the country in order to comply with an FBI search warrant. The warrant in question pertains to a domestic fraud probe.
The ruling is notable because it goes against an appeals court judgement last year — recently upheld — pertaining to Microsoft customer data held in servers outside the US. In that instance a federal court ruled the company did not have to hand over data stored on its servers in Ireland to the US government, declining to "disregard the presumption against extraterritoriality," as the judge put it.
However in the Google case, U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Rueter ruled on Friday that the act of transferring emails from a foreign server did not qualify as a seizure. According to Reuters, the judge ruled there is no "meaningful interference" with the account holder's "possessory interest", going on to assert that any privacy infringement occurs "at the time of disclosure in the United States", rather than when the data itself is transferred.
Google's legal team had sought to use the Microsoft ruling as precedent to challenge the warrant's scope. The company had turned over data that was stored in the US only. In a statement it said it will be appealing the judgement. "The magistrate in this case departed from precedent, and we plan to appeal the decision. We will continue to push back on overbroad warrants," it said.
Both cases involve warrants issued under a 1986 federal law called the Stored Communications Act, which — as you can imagine, given its date-stamp — has long been described as a "woefully outdated" piece of legislation vs the technology it is now being used to regulate.
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(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Wednesday February 08 2017, @01:52AM
Sure, first you have to realize that it really is a slave trade both to the US and to Europe. The people on the train called "the Beast" up through Latin America or the people in huge rubber dingies in the Mediterranean or the people hidden in containers and so on are there because they think they're going to arrive at some kind of TV paradise which simply doesn't exist. They believe and they pay for it up front; they pay to become slaves which is why they are now more profitable than drugs for the people transporting them.
By opposing measures to control and abolish the illegal flow of undocumented people across the borders one is supporting this. These companies are supporting and encouraging it and are thus slave traders.
Plain enough?
There is no lack of documentation available on the internet and even occasionally on TV and in the media in general. But you have to be willing to actually read it and not just gloss over it or keep pretending it isn't or can't be real like so many people must do.
These companies and all the "nice" people are very good at being or pretending to be completely unaware of the amount of people they refer to as "immigrants" that die (and/or worse, do you know what a "rape tree" is?) before they even for example reach Mexico's southern border wall that Mexico built years ago.
All so that they can get their cheap labor, in effect slave labor in comparison to what they would have otherwise had to pay.
They also simultaneously pretend to be kind-hearted, "socialist", "liberal", or any other "good" thing while everyone who knows better is portrayed as a "fascist" or "racist". But if you take a look at the blood trail they and the people supporting them are worse than the Nazis.
Those Starbucks Lattes people drink ought to taste and look like pure blood.
And yes, string them all up, even Elon Musk if this is what he supports.
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(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Wednesday February 08 2017, @02:55AM
These companies are opposed to stopping the *legal* flow of immigrants. I'm not really sure what you're on about. At this point, I think I'm not really that interested either.