The great thing about cloud computing is that no matter where you are , your data file are just there . It turns out they ’re just there for law enforcement , too , as two Google Docs - using spammers lately found out .
In a case Wired ’s calling “ the first in public acknowledged lookup guarantee benefiting from a defendant ’s reliance on cloud calculation , ” FBI agent quietly seized incriminating spreadsheet from dieting add-on - hawking spammer ’ Google accounts . In this case , the FBI had obtained a search warrant which allowed them to get the files from Google directly , as opposed to showing up at the spammers ’ homes to impound their toilsome drives ( and thus alerting them of the investigation . )
But what ’s worrying groups like the EFF is that there ’s some ambiguity as to whether or not a guarantee is need to seize swarm data at all . According to the 1986 Stored Communications Act , the government can get at an individual ’s cloud data where there is “ reasonable ground ” to do so , whereas obtaining a search warrant for the somebody ’s physical laborious drives involve a more convincing “ likely cause . ”
A Google spokesperson enjoin that the party is making an sweat to inform users when their data point is request by a third political party , though the spammer defendents in this case said that they had received no parole from Google that their documents were being look for . There ’s no doubt that cloud computing progress to substance abuser ’ lives easier . But it count like it might make law enforcement officers ’ lives a little bit easier , too . [ cable ]
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