October 25, 2022
After spending more than $90 million improving its warrant compliance program, Google LLC has reached a "first-of-its-kind resolution" that will require continued improvement to end U.S. Department of Justice claims that the search giant lost key data requested in a 2016 investigation of a cryptocurrency exchange, the DOJ announced Tuesday.
October 19, 2017
Rejecting federal prosecutors' contention that tougher sanctions are warranted, a California federal judge Thursday accepted Google's offer to pay $10,000 per day if the company doesn't comply with a government search warrant in the event that Google's appeal over the demand fails, calling the amount "sufficiently coercive."
October 18, 2017
Federal prosecutors asked a California federal judge Wednesday to hold an evidentiary hearing on how much Google Inc. should pay in sanctions while it appeals a court-ordered search warrant, arguing the internet giant's offer to pay $10,000 per day if the appeal fails doesn't have "significant teeth."
September 22, 2017
Federal prosecutors are seeking to have Google Inc. sanctioned for refusing to comply with a search warrant requesting certain user data stored overseas, telling a California federal judge Wednesday that the internet giant is flouting court orders.
August 10, 2017
Google seemed poised to lose its bid to dodge a search warrant for information stored outside the U.S. Thursday, when a California federal judge said he would probably overrule the tech giant's objections that the data was outside the jurisdiction of the Stored Communications Act.
June 08, 2017
Microsoft, Apple and other technology giants on Wednesday threw their support behind Google's bid to overturn a California magistrate judge's order that it disclose information stored outside the U.S. in response to a search warrant, saying the reach into foreign territory for data isn't allowed under federal law.
May 04, 2017
Google is asking a California federal judge to review a magistrate judge's recent finding that the tech giant must disclose content stored outside the United States in response to a search warrant, arguing Wednesday the order is an unlawful extraterritorial application of the Stored Communications Act.
April 20, 2017
A California magistrate judge on Wednesday denied Google's bid to slip a search warrant requesting certain user content stored overseas, holding that the tech giant must produce all responsive information that is retrievable from the United States, regardless of where it is stored.