Google fights for privacy and security rights against US goverment...

Google is worried about a projected change to a criminal proceeding rule which enables the US government to transpire into and espy on computer networks and devices from all over the globe. The search giant has attached a comment (PDF) dissenting the change, because it believes the change would undercut users’ rights to privacy and security.

A state body famous as the Advisory Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure is searching to update Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41, which currently forbids a federal judge from issuing a search verdict outside of the judge’s section, with some exceptions.

The offered change would allow government agencies to get verdicts to operate “remote access” searches of computers and mobile devices if their physical position is “concealed through technological means.”

Maybe the idea behind this was to discover botnets or data from systems in the US whose Web traffic and location are covered, but this project won’t stop government from searching computers outside US boundaries. Full story...

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