well now the government is looking into another well known hacker and human rights activist jacob apple bought a twenty year old album was also wiki leaks volunteer and we've mentioned it before on the show when the feds tried to get twitter to hand over his personal information when out of the o'jays utilized a secret court order called the twenty seven zero three d. order to obtain information about this man from google and i asked the sonic dot net so both companies were ordered to hand over information for e-mail account and provide details of who is corresponded with over the past two years and we should note that sonic the twenty seven zero three d. order because this isn't like your traditional search warrant the government initiatives kinds of orders without a warrant thanks to a law that they did back to nine hundred eighty six that of china communications privacy act to law enforcement is used not order and passed information requests and court orders like that twitter situation because they only need to show reasonable grounds that the information would be beneficial to an in

>> reporter: bill, an expert computer hacker, jacob apple democrats baum who identified himself as a member of the tore project, who are dedicated to online anonymity. he is a volunteer for wickileaks and has been detained by the feds upon returning to the u.s. from abroad. the u.s. government has obtained a controversial secret court order to force google and sonic net.incorporated to turn over information from applebau m's e-mail accounts. the "wall street journal" reports bowl goolel and sonic want to inform applebaum of this government request but lost that fight. dane jasper told the "wall street journal" that challenged court order was, quote, rather expensive and we felt it was the right thing to do. the court order requests the e-mail addresses of the people that applebaum corresponded with over the past 2 1/2 years but not the content of those e-mails, bill. bill: doug, you know, we -- i guess the order itself potentially a violation of the fourth amendment. i mean, that's what the other side is arguing now. that deals with unreasonable search and seizures. >> that's right.

jacob sen. he thought he stole from apple when it developed the system. outside of search, google's products ann droid google docs are the same bad word. the "wall street journal" says google might help finance the purchase of yahoo by a private search of investors. in many ways google helped the existence of yahoo! because it's competition. google accused of dominating search. to pay is so crazy it just just might work. netflix opens the book to investors. more about profits we care about subscriber numbers. the overal value has fallen. he told the new york times he won't step down. won't consider it for a second, he says. >> thank you, scott. laura? >> no kidding. 6:27 now. still to come on "today in the bay." several san francisco mayor candidates raising concerns about how ed lee supporters are acting leading up to the election. we'll te you why. and twos skrash, eight people injured. both drivers were drunk. a live report is next. >>> and we do have some thick fog developing around the bay area. we will show you where the most dense fog will be found

have the right you know we're not living in a democracy so but jacob i think a lot of people might say to you though if there are a few bad apples there are a few police who definitely overstepped their bounds or for the most part a lot of them not the majority of them really take their jobs seriously in terms of keeping people safe in terms of keeping their communities safe why is it that you are so intent on exposing all the bad apples then you know i'm wondering what you would say to people who say you're making it seem like this is a much larger problem and it is i'm sitting here right now with four pages of servile killings in oakland over the last ten years i can show you where we don't have the time but several of these officers were not only promoted but they were put in other positions of power where they have the ability to cover up younger officers that are involved in shootings and killings so that we have is that you kill it don't put it on the open piece of armor that you kill you're more likely to be promoted me any more likely to be in a position of power to be able to protect others want you during that night wh