Google In Talks With Privacy Groups To Limit Government Access To Users' Data Without Warrants

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The company has been talking to advocacy groups and companies about joining a lobbying effort to change the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, said Chris Gaither, a Google spokesman. He declined to elaborate.

“Given the realities of how people live and where things are going in the digital world, it’s an important time for government to act” to update the law, David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, said in an interview. “It’s a bipartisan issue and I think the momentum is going to build because citizens are expecting this.”

Google officials say changes in the law are needed to prevent law enforcement from obtaining certain e-mails and other content without search warrants, and to give documents stored on cloud services the same legal protections as paper documents stored in a desk drawer. Cloud services, which didn’t exist when the privacy law was passed, let users store and process data on remote servers via the Internet.

Google In Talks With Privacy Groups To Limit Government Access To Users' Data Without Warrants [bloomberg.com]

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Google trying to limit access to data for privacy reasons? Is it just me or is there an element of irony in this? ;)

[BaseballGuy]

Google In Talks With Privacy Groups To Limit Government Access To Users' Data Without Warrants

I'll just leave this here: [wired.com...]

[diberry]

If only the government was in talks to limit Google's access to my data.

[skibum]

If they didn't collect so much then it wouldn't be there for the govt to fish through.