Court orders Google to hand over emails stored on foreign servers to the US

A US court has ordered Google to provide US authorities with emails of Google customers stored on foreign servers, Reuters reported.

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According to the news agency, Judge Thomas Ruyter made such a decision to allow FBI agents to conduct fraud investigations inside the United States.

“While the extraction of data from Google's various overseas servers may amount to an invasion of privacy, the reality is that the invasion would only occur if the information were made public in the United States,” the judge said.

In response, Google said it plans to appeal.

According to Sputnik