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Kashmir Hill | July 12, 2011

Many privacy advocates are worried about the extent to which tech companies are becoming unofficial government intelligence agents, handing over data about their users to the feds without the users ever realizing it unless they’re charged with a crime. It came to the fore when Twitter fought back against a gag when the Department of Justice subpoenaed it for information about Wikileaks supporters — supporters who then alleged that Facebook and Google had likely quietly complied with government requests for information that they had received.

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Tags: Privacy, Social media

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