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Big Brother? US linked to new wave of censorship

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 11:11 am
by RX8er
This is real scary that this can be done without a warrant.
The U.S. government asked Google for data on its users more than 31,000 times in 2012 alone, for example. And the government rarely obtained a search warrant first, Google recently revealed; in nearly all cases, the company ended up turning over at least some data.
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Chas, does Texas CHL have a policy for giving/releaseing information? Kind of like the one that the web host has on their site?

Re: Big Brother? US linked to new wave of censorship

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 11:19 am
by Charles L. Cotton
RX8er wrote:This is real scary that this can be done without a warrant.
The U.S. government asked Google for data on its users more than 31,000 times in 2012 alone, for example. And the government rarely obtained a search warrant first, Google recently revealed; in nearly all cases, the company ended up turning over at least some data.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/02/27/ ... p-america/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Chas, does Texas CHL have a policy for giving/releaseing information? Kind of like the one that the web host has on their site?
I've never had a request for information and I can't imagine receiving one. The information is readily available by searching the site. I suspect that any formal requests would be made to the web host, not to the administrator of a board. If I had additional information not readily available, I wouldn't release it without a warrant.

Chas.