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EFF Sues DoJ for Stonewalling on Google Hire

By Michael Arkfeld

Click here for the full story.  "There may be no reason for concern that the woman who served as the DoJ's top privacy lawyer during its tug of war with Google over users' search queries later went to work for Google. The Electronic Frontier Foundation wants to know whether she had any official conversations with the search giant during the ruckus, though, and it's suing Justice for failing to respond to its request. The Electronic Frontier Foundation  has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for not responding in a timely manner to a request it made six months ago under the Freedom of Information Act. The organization had asked for any communications between former DoJ attorney Jane Horvath and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) . . . . "

Full post as published by Electronic Discovery & Evidence on March 01, 2008 (boomark / email).