Google handed Wikileaks volunteers' Gmail accounts to NSA, targets reveal

Charlee Gothard
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'Google has been compelled to hand over all email associated with my GMail account,' says Herbert Snorrason

Two Wikileaks volunteers have revealed that Google released data from their Gmail accounts to the US government under the secret, legally enforced information seizures being made by the  Prism secu...

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