On Friday, an administrative law judge handed Google a victory, ruling that it does not need to hand over all the data requested by the Department of Labor as part of an audit of the company's compliance with equal pay laws.
The White House, though, never handed over the information requested. .
Uber has accepted a partial suspension in New York in an effort to avoid having to hand over ride data requested by the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission.
The draft legislation itself mentions the word encryption only once, and then only in reference to existing laws, but it does make clear that companies can be given a "technical capability notice" to ensure they can comply with their "obligations" to hand over data requested by security services.
"This represents a significant breakthrough," he wrote of Louisiana's agreement to hand over the requested data.
The Federal Administrative Court said Switzerland's tax office could not hand over the data as the request was based solely on a suspicion of tax evasion.
On Saturday morning, with news stories circulating about officials unable or unwilling to hand over all the requested data, Trump lashed out at them for "refusing to give information to the very distinguished VOTER FRAUD PANEL". He also suggested these states may have nefarious purposes for refusing to participate.
While prosecutors in Hamburg, where Google has its German headquarters, have opened a criminal investigation into the issue, Mr. Caspar said the state prosecutor, Lutz von Selle, had assured him that complying with the request to hand over the data would not cause additional legal problems for Google.
The panel asked the authors to hand over the data to back up their conclusions, but despite "repeated and clearly defined requests," it received "incomplete and sporadically incorrect data".
Maryland, Delaware, Louisiana, Maine and Wyoming officials joined those in more than 20 other states refusing to hand over part or all of the personal voter data requested by a commission Trump formed to investigate election fraud.
Maryland, Delaware, Louisiana, Maine and Wyoming officials joined those in more than 20 other states refusing to hand over part or all of the personal voter data requested by a commission Trump formed to investigate election fraud.
