WikiLeaks SHOCKED that Google blabbed its data to the feds
WikiLeaks is demanding answers from Google after learning that the company handed user information to the FBI and didn't acknowledge the incident for more than two years.
The whisteblowing site on Monday issued an open letter to Eric Schmidt asking the former Google CEO and current chairman to explain when and where it gave law enforcement details on three journalists who were working for WikiLeaks in 2011.
According to the letter, Sarah Harrison, Kristinn Hrafnsson, and Joseph Farrell were all the subjects of federal investigations and had their email content and metadata provided to law enforcement without any warning from Google. "We are astonished and disturbed that Google waited over two and a half years to notify its subscribers that a search warrant was issued for their records," WikiLeaks lawyers say in the letter.
