Gmail users got a hefty dose of reality today when it was revealed that Google handed over one user’s private data to the U.S. government, who requested it without a search warrant.
The contacts list and IP address data of Jacob Applebaum, a WikiLeaks volunteer and developer for Tor was given to the U.S. government after they requested it using a secret court order enabled by a controversial 1986 law called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, according to the Wall Street Journal. The law allows the government to demand information from ISPs not only without a warrant, but without ever notifying the user.
Article source: RRW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/AD5byj5IVzc/google_hands_wikileaks_volunteers_gmail_data_to_us.php
And Google wants me to trust them with managing my electronic health records? *kiss off*