[Infowarrior] - How DOJ Gagged Google over Surveillance of WikiLeaks Volunteer

[Richard Forno]

Revealed: How DOJ Gagged Google over Surveillance of WikiLeaks Volunteer

By Ryan Gallagher
@rj_gallagher

The Obama administration fought a legal battle against Google to secretly obtain the email records of a security researcher and journalist associated with WikiLeaks.

Newly unsealed court documents obtained by The Intercept reveal the Justice Department won an order forcing Google to turn over more than one year’s worth of data from the Gmail account of Jacob Appelbaum (pictured above), a developer for the Tor online anonymity project who has worked with WikiLeaks as a volunteer. The order also gagged Google, preventing it from notifying Appelbaum that his records had been provided to the government.

The surveillance of Appelbaum’s Gmail account was tied to the Justice Department’s long-running criminal investigation of WikiLeaks, which began in 2010 following the transparency group’s publication of a large cache of U.S. government diplomatic cables.

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https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/20/wikileaks-jacob-appelbaum-google-investigation/

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