[Advocacy Advisors] Responding to government requests

[Luis Villa]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:50 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman at gmail.com> wrote:

> > we've got a lot of growing to do as an organization ...
> > becoming more sophisticated in how ... we ...
> > respond to government requests
>
> Is there any downside to responding as if the Forth
> Amendment is constitutional
>

I meant, in context, requests like the one we were discussing - for
feedback on copyright reform and other statutory/policy change. As the
privacy policy says, government requests for personal information (i.e.,
requests where the 4th amendment is relevant) we contest vigorously, and
we're fairly sophisticated/experienced in that area.

Luis


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