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This article is likely not updated with the fourth company: Google, who recently lost their initial challenge. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57587003-38/ju
by diafygi 13y ago
This article is likely not updated with the fourth company: Google, who recently lost their initial challenge.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57587003-38/judge-orders-google-to-comply-with-fbis-secret-nsl-demands/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57587003-38/judge-orders-g...
However,
> It wasn't a complete win for the Justice Department, however: Illston all but invited Google to try again, stressing that the company has only raised broad arguments, not ones "specific to the 19 NSLs at issue." She also reserved judgment on two of the 19 NSLs, saying she wanted the government to "provide further information" prior to making a decision.
and
> Illston, who is stepping down from her post in July, said another reason for her decision is her desire not to interfere while the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is reviewing the constitutionality of NSLs in an unrelated case that she also oversaw.
So it seems that we'll have to wait for the Ninth Circuit to declare NSLs unconstitutional before deciding if Google's case counts as a loss.
- notimetorelax 13y agoOT: There should be some rule about publishing articles without date on them.
- gridmaths 13y agothis always annoys me.. common practice in science papers, which is weird as the citations invariably have date.
- heresthedate 13y agoFor what it's worth, I was able to track down the date via one of their RSS feeds: https://www.aclunc.org/home/features_aclu_of_northern_california.xml https://www.aclunc.org/home/features_aclu_of_northern_califo... National Security Letters 05/06/2008 03:05 PM