What Happens When You Defy a Secret Government Order?

Brian Palmer

Jun 13, 2013

Google revealed on Wednesday that it responds to secret government requests for data by using file transfer protocol (FTP) and sometimes by simply handing a hard drive to investigators. What would happen, though, if Google or other companies flatly refused to comply with a secret government order?

They would be held in contempt secretly, pay secret fines, and executives might even serve secret jail time. A party that defies any federal court, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, is held in contempt. The secretive nature of the

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