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| Google charges police officers for your data |
Google started using law enforcement requests for user data this month, as the search giant announced that law enforcement agencies will charge fees for information requests that begin with legal data such as subpoenas and user-related search records. The New York Times.
The company receives thousands of appeals from government agencies every year. As a result, she decided to charge fees to offset the cost of creating the information, and Google announced that to law enforcement agencies, and the new fees would take effect on January 13.
These fees are permitted by law because federal law allows companies to make payments for these requests. This is not strange for Google, as Google has already imposed fees to meet the requirements of legal data, and it is not the only company to charge fees for this work. Labor cost.
A Google spokesperson told the New York Times that the company had not received any fees for these requests for years and that the U.S. search giant had received more than 26,000 requests to disclose data in the first half of 2019 and more than 10,000,000 inquiries. save data
Google's Notarized Payment Notice for law enforcement agencies lists the following prices for different data requests:
Request to attend: $ 45.
Ranking: $ 150.
Research note: $ 245.
Opposition and Follow-up Order: $ 60.
Direct debit license: $ 60.
A company spokesperson told the newspaper: In some cases, Google does not charge fees, including child safety and life-threatening emergencies.
Law enforcement agencies can access all types of information about Google users, although the information the company provides depends on the legal request made, and, according to Google, local and federal authorities may require access to information or information created in the past. Created in real time.
For example, subpoenas display information created in the past so that Google can be asked to provide the name users provided when they created a Gmail email account and the IP addresses used to create the account were used. Account, log in and log out.