Google is trying the other side of the argument by reportedly asking a district court to set aside the latest National Security Letter it has received from the government. The super-secret method of requesting data on a company's users was recently declared unconstitutional, so Google may be banking on that and its legal and lobbying strength for its new defiant stand.
google is reportedly challenging a government request for private information on its users, just weeks after it became the first major tech company to release information about the security probes it receives from the FBI.
The tech giant is mounting a court challenge against a National Security Letter (NSL), a highly secretive demand issued by the FBI that asks Google to provide private information on certain users. The challenge, first reported by Bloomberg, is rare.
The move comes a few weeks after U.S. District Judge Susan Illston -- the same judge who was
