The United States Department of Justice reportedly used a secret court order to get information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum. The DoJ reportedly put the squeeze on Google and Sonic.net, a small Internet service provider, to turn over the email addresses of the people with whom Appelbaum communicated. The court order was apparently granted under the auspices of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. That tactic doesn’t sit well with many privacy advocates.
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Feds Secretly Fish Through Suspects' Online Lives
Posted by: Richard Adhikari October 12, 2011 05:00 AMThe United States Department of Justice reportedly used a secret court order to get information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum. The DoJ reportedly put the squeeze on Google and Sonic.net, a small Internet service provider, to turn over the email addresses of the people with whom Appelbaum communicated. The court order was apparently granted under the auspices of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. That tactic doesn’t sit well with many privacy advocates.