Google warning: FBI wants to hack any computer in world
RT.com
February 19, 2015
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.
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