Agorism
10-11-2011, 06:08 PM
Government Seizes American’s Email Data Without A Search Warrant
http://irregulartimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/googlespy.jpg
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
-Google CEO Eric Schmidt's comment
http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2011/10/11/government-seizes-americans-email-data-without-a-search-warrant/
he Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America requires a search warrant to be issued on the basis of probable cause of suspicion of involvement in criminal activity. That’s not what happened when the Department of Justice raided Jacob Applebaum’s email.
Law enforcement officials from the federal government took records of everybody that Applebaum had been in contact with through email, so that it could search through those contacts for people of interest. No search warrant was provided. Applebaum wasn’t suspected of a crime. He was merely a volunteer, associating with Wikileaks but not involved in any criminal activity himself.
Applebaum wasn’t ever told that his personal communications had been searched and seized.
It wasn’t the Patriot Act or the FISA Amendments Act that the Justice Department used to justify this unconstitutional seizure and search of Applebaum’s private records. It was a law passed by Congress in 1986 called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. The Obama Administration interprets this law as providing the authority to grab information from Americans’ cell phones and email accounts.
Jacob Applebaum’s Internet service provider, a company called Sonic, took the Department of Justice to court in an attempt to prevent the government’s spies from invading Applebaum’s privacy. Google, the other company from which the federal government took Applebaum’s data, refuses to comment about its conduct in this case.
That suggests that Google probably helped the government spy on one of its own customers, in violation of the Constitution. For Americans who want their online communications to remain private, it seems like a good time to leave Google behind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6e7wfDHzew
Google CEO Eric Schmidt promotes Patriot Act in interview.
http://irregulartimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/googlespy.jpg
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
-Google CEO Eric Schmidt's comment
http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2011/10/11/government-seizes-americans-email-data-without-a-search-warrant/
he Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America requires a search warrant to be issued on the basis of probable cause of suspicion of involvement in criminal activity. That’s not what happened when the Department of Justice raided Jacob Applebaum’s email.
Law enforcement officials from the federal government took records of everybody that Applebaum had been in contact with through email, so that it could search through those contacts for people of interest. No search warrant was provided. Applebaum wasn’t suspected of a crime. He was merely a volunteer, associating with Wikileaks but not involved in any criminal activity himself.
Applebaum wasn’t ever told that his personal communications had been searched and seized.
It wasn’t the Patriot Act or the FISA Amendments Act that the Justice Department used to justify this unconstitutional seizure and search of Applebaum’s private records. It was a law passed by Congress in 1986 called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. The Obama Administration interprets this law as providing the authority to grab information from Americans’ cell phones and email accounts.
Jacob Applebaum’s Internet service provider, a company called Sonic, took the Department of Justice to court in an attempt to prevent the government’s spies from invading Applebaum’s privacy. Google, the other company from which the federal government took Applebaum’s data, refuses to comment about its conduct in this case.
That suggests that Google probably helped the government spy on one of its own customers, in violation of the Constitution. For Americans who want their online communications to remain private, it seems like a good time to leave Google behind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6e7wfDHzew
Google CEO Eric Schmidt promotes Patriot Act in interview.