Apple, Microsoft, Amazon & Cisco Support Google in Fight Against FBI

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Google gets some big names in its corner

 

Tech companies are joining forces to fight against the FBI's desire to get its hands on people's emails. Apple, Amazon, Cisco, and Microsoft have all filed an amicus brief in support of Google. 

 

Silicon Valley giants have known for years how difficult it is to fight against the government, especially when it wants to get its hands on the data of your users. This time, they're working together to back Google who was ordered by a court to hand over emails in response to an FBI search warrant. In this particular situation, the court said it doesn't matter if Google has the emails stored on data centers that are not on the territory of the United States.

 

“When a warrant seeks email content from a foreign data center, that invasion of privacy occurs outside the United States — in the place where the customers’ private communications are stored, and where they are accessed, and copied for the benefit of law enforcement, without the customer’s consent,” reads the brief filed by the tech giants Apple, Amazon, Cisco, and Microsoft.

 

There's a flip side

They believe that granting access to the FBI only creates a precedent for other countries to demand emails sent and received by US citizens, stored on US soil, by using the same methods. This, of course, would be severely frowned upon by those very same courts that are now ordering Google to supply the FBI with data on its customers stored in foreign data centers.

 

"Our sister nations clearly view US warrants directing service providers to access, copy, and transmit to the United States data stored on servers located within their territory as an extraterritorial act on the part of the US government," the file further reads.

 

Google has previously said that it would battle against the court order and it seems that it has decided to bring in backup. In a similar situation, the court sided with Microsoft, which is probably part of the reason the company decided to join in on the matter. There's also the fact that all these companies face the same difficulties when fighting against the government's overreach and that such a decision could be used as precedent in cases against themselves.

 

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[steven36]

Don't trust Google they already caved in to the UK government over fileshareing ,  , Apple helped the DOJ too catch the guy who ran KAT  and all these companies are known Prism  actors  they work with the US Government everyday. All smoke and Mirrors for there own interest only reason there doing  this is to keep business and money flowing out of the EU . If you're data goes in there USA data centers then the FBI has access to it and the problem is when you use there services  you never know were the data has went .

 

See if the FBI gets access to Data servers in the EU  the EU  has threaten to stop doing  business with them it's about money not privacy if the EU didn't care they would not care . I been reading a lot about this and I know and  understand why they all the sudden act like they care . What ever laws is in you're country no matter if they invade you privacy they will invade you're  privacy to protect  there  business .. If the Laws are for privacy then they will  fight  in court to protect there business so the USA dont get this data but it still dont protect against  you're own country . For example the Dutch Police breaking into all those BlackBerry phones.

 

And still  this don't mean they cant go trough you're own country  and get data.  The EU's Interpol  share data with NSA . NSA and Interpol shares data with the FBI.