Did you know that the government may — and often does — obtain data from Internet service providers without notice to the ISP’s subscribers? In the second half of last year, the U.S. government made 4,601 requests for user data from Google.

While businesses and individuals are increasingly storing data in the cloud due to its efficiency and lower costs, the use of this promising technology may be frustrated if the government is able to easily obtain access — as it has in the past with email — to the much wider range of information available from cloud-computing providers.

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