Google Agrees To Compliance Reforms in DOJ Settlement

Alphabet's Google has agreed to improve its compliance program in a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department, which said the search giant lost data federal investigators sought in connection with a probe into a cryptocurrency exchange. From a report: The DOJ said Tuesday that a third-party independent compliance professional will monitor whether Google holds up its end of the deal. Under the agreement, Google will be required to reform and upgrade the compliance program that handles responses to legal demands such as subpoenas and search warrants.

Google estimates it has already spent more than $90 million on systems and staffing to improve the program, and prosecutors have agreed a penalty isn't warranted, according to a settlement document filed in San Francisco federal court. "Google has a long track record of protecting our users' privacy, including pushing back against overbroad government demands for user data, and this agreement in no way changes our ability or our commitment to continue doing so," a Google representative said.

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[LifesABeach]

complies.
that is mighty white of the search engine

2 lions and a lamb pick lunch menu

[iAmWaySmarterThanYou]

Google, the government, citizens Privacy rights.

Hint: the citizens get eaten in this story

cancer is spreading

[Neuroelectronic]

Seems to me one of the functions of government is to create a multitude of accountable, black ops intelligence agencies. Google is becoming less and less of a public utility and when it does provide public services they’re becoming less and less useful for the public. If you know anything about how gmail works, I don’t have to elaborate on this. Certainly, the search is devolving at a rapid rate and is extremely partisan and corrupt, even openly choosing which players will win a certain market,

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[codebase7]

Seems to me one of the functions of government is to create a multitude of accountable, black ops intelligence agencies.

Accountable? No. Unaccountable? Yes! The whole point of using Google or any other private entity is to allow the government plausible deniability in court, and do an end run around wiretapping laws. After all, it's not illegal for Google to spy on you constantly, and perfectly legal for the government to demand that data held by them under the Third-party doctrine. (Which nullifies any Fourth Amendment claims.)

Google is becoming less and less of a public utility

Google is a private entity. It is not a public utility. Whether or not Google should be consider

Google and the DOJ are

[oldgraybeard]

on the same side of the table negotiating with themselves. There is no one looking out for the users here.

Wait I thought Karen always...

[AmazingRuss]

... drove the wondersprogs to school in her SUV, judging by the traffic jams. There are still school busses?