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US search engine giant Google has warned against increasing the government's powers for infiltrating computer systems around the world, saying it would open a number of "monumental" constitutional issues.
Google released a tough-sounding statement against the Department Justice (DoJ) proposal to make it easier for the courts to issue search warrants to seize electronic data ‘remotely’ from anywhere in the world.
Efforts to rewrite federal regulations, presently encoded in a government provision known as Rule 41,"raises a number of monumental and highly complex constitutional, legal, and geopolitical concerns that should be left to Congress to decide," wrote Richard Salgado, Google's director for law enforcement and information security.
Under Rule 41, the judge that authorizes the computer tap must be situated in the same district as the computer under investigation. The new proposal would allow the FBI to operate beyond the immediate judicial area of the presiding judge.
Despite his assurances that intelligence agencies like the FBI are "careful to avoid collateral damage when executing remote searches,” skepticism over any enhancement of the government’s data harvesting abilities may prove impossible to mitigate in these more paranoid, post-Snowden times.
Google is the only major tech company to voice its condemnation on the proposed rule changes regulating how the government collects private data.
Google released a tough-sounding statement against the Department Justice (DoJ) proposal to make it easier for the courts to issue search warrants to seize electronic data ‘remotely’ from anywhere in the world.
Efforts to rewrite federal regulations, presently encoded in a government provision known as Rule 41,"raises a number of monumental and highly complex constitutional, legal, and geopolitical concerns that should be left to Congress to decide," wrote Richard Salgado, Google's director for law enforcement and information security.
Under Rule 41, the judge that authorizes the computer tap must be situated in the same district as the computer under investigation. The new proposal would allow the FBI to operate beyond the immediate judicial area of the presiding judge.
Despite his assurances that intelligence agencies like the FBI are "careful to avoid collateral damage when executing remote searches,” skepticism over any enhancement of the government’s data harvesting abilities may prove impossible to mitigate in these more paranoid, post-Snowden times.
Google is the only major tech company to voice its condemnation on the proposed rule changes regulating how the government collects private data.
