Online group slams Google

Google has come in for severe criticism from WikiLeaks over its decision to comply with a court order seeking emails and other data relating to three of the journalistic group’s employees.

The internet giant handed over data effectively encapsulating all digital communications to and from WikiLeaks investigations editor Sarah Harrison; the organisation’s spokesperson, Kristinn Hrafnsson and section editor Joseph Farrell.

It has also emerged that Google took more than two-and-a-half years to notify WikiLeaks of the warrants thus, WikiLeaks claims, denying the employees in question the opportunity to “protect their interests, including their rights to privacy, association and freedom from illegal searches”.