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ACLU and EFF Leave FBI Gagging on Gag Order

San Franciso based Internet Archive had recently been served a Patriot Act “Nation Security Letter” that requested personal information about on of their users. Operating as a library, the Archive was hesitant to release the information and instead turned to the ACLU and EFF for support. A subsequent court case has now forced the FBI [...]

Threat of US spooks haunt Google

It wasn’t too long ago that Google put it’s full attention towards cloud-computing, targeting businesses and universities to utilize Gmail and other Google Apps as their  core infrastructure. Eighteen months ago, Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada did just that - saving millions and months up front and hundreds of thousands in annual [...]