Google to appeal against order to hand over user emails stored outside US
by Samuel Gibbs and agencies from Technology | The Guardian on (#2BNCD)
Judge rules Gmail-provider must comply with FBI warrants despite privacy implications, contrary to previous ruling in similar Microsoft case
Google has said it will appeal a ruling by a US judge to hand over the emails of Gmail users stored outside of the country - which puts the privacy of non-US citizens at risk.
US magistrate judge Thomas Rueter in Philadelphia ruled on Friday that Google must comply with search warrants issued by the FBI as part of a domestic fraud investigation. He said that transferring emails from a foreign server so FBI agents could review them locally did not qualify as a seizure because there was "no meaningful interference" with the account holder's "possessory interest" in the data sought.
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