Federal prosecutors on Wednesday urged a judge to slap Google with higher sanctions for failing to comply with a court order that it hand over emails and other data the technology giant claims are beyond the reach of the U.S. government. “The sanction itself needs to have significant teeth in order to compel Google, a $600 billion company, to
Federal Prosecutors Want Google Punished For ‘Withholding’ User Data
Google argued that because user data sought by prosecutors is stored on an overseas server, the U.S. government lacks authority to seize the records under the Stored Communications Act.
