Google Inc (GOOG) Taking on G-Men in Fight Over Warrantless Requests

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Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), though it lost, was able to flesh out the argument that likely could win a court battle over these NSLs, and companies like Google, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) may no longer need to comply with so many requests that they get for information about their users.

Currently under federal law, these companies are required to submit a public document periodically that audits the overall number of government requests for user information, which includes all government agencies around the world, and they provide the numbers for public consumption, along with a number that reflects the percentage of requests that are granted. The numbers, by the way, go into the hundreds of thousands for the major tech companies combined in a few weeks’ time.

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