[governance] Yet another Google article

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

You mistake me.  The situation is that legally compliant warrants in the USA - and even more so in other countries (such as India) are structured to be extremely easy to issue, and broad in what they can demand.

At least the USA follows some amount of process - even that is quite vaguely defined in India, with stiffer penalties for non compliance with a warrant.  I need hardly point out that China has an even worse situation, and a much broader range of issues (political dissidence etc) that they will issue warrants for.

Google is working to raise the bar on legal compliance, make it more specific and better defined.

--srs (iPad)

On 24-Jan-2013, at 9:27, Chaitanya Dhareshwar <chaitanyabd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Naturally; it would be Google in legal trouble if they complied with a request that is not legally compliant. At least one can be sure that one's email is not an open book; there is some security in place.
>  
> -C
> 
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
>> I wonder if, after all the negativity about google, what would be the reaction
>> if a more positive piece about them were to be posted.
>> 
>> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/google-stands-up-for-gmail-users-requires-cops-to-get-a-warrant/
>> 
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