The Us government via a secret court order, requests information from WikiLeaks (Jacob Appelbaum. Target Google and the isp Sonic. The used legislation becomes more and more controversial.
That reports The Wall Street Journal, which says the secret court orders under eyes to have had. The American government would have on the e-mail addresses that Jacob Appelbaum, developer at Tor project, in the last two years communicated. Appelbaum by the U.s. government in connection with the WikiLeaks project Cablegate and was in August still held for questioning after he as a spokesperson for the klokkenluiderssite was occurred. However, there are no formal complaints against the American formulated.
Sonic, a small California isp, would have resistance against the delivery of personal data to the government, but the court as to the objections of the table swept. Google wanted no substantive comment on the news.
In a previous study to Appelbaum examined the U.s. department of justice, other alleged WikiLeaks members. So Washington did the Twitter data of internetactivist Rop Gonggrijp to get your hands on. Twitter has this information, however, not yet provided, so reports the business daily. Also received Gonggrijp, a letter from Twitter that the ministry of justice of him wanted to query.
The U.s. government makes increasing use of secret court orders to obtain personal information to the providers. It makes use of the outdated Electronic Communications Privacy Act. By this law, dating from 1986, the government only ‘reasonable grounds’ for the right to information in hands, while justice, for example, in an application for a search warrant considerably more persuasion is needed. Additionally, with such a request, the person or company in question is not notified of the giving of consent.
American companies, including Google and Microsoft, and a number of politicians, set the now new legislation for. The current regulations, with hardly a judicial test is carried out, it would be in conflict with the constitution. In december last year, the opponents of the act, approval of a judge, who argued that the government the fourth amendment of the constitution has been violated when the 27,000 e-mails received without a search warrant.