Gmail and your privacy

Allegedly  Google has handed over one user’s private data to the U.S. government, who requested it without a search warrant.

The contacts list and IP address data of  Jacob Appelbaum, a WikiLeaks volunteer and developer for Tor was given to the U.S. government after they requested it using a secret court order enabled by a controversial 1986 law called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, according to the Wall Street Journal. The law allows the government to demand information from ISPs not only without a warrant, but without ever notifying the user.

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