After a court order was issued in Virginia regarding Google and WikiLeaks, where the whistleblowing site had demanded the answers to different questions about private searches and information and whether they were being distributed to the government, it actually took six months for the people at Google to comply, raising a lot of questions in the meantime.

There have been many scandals regarding whistleblowing in the last couple of years, from the different releases by WikiLeaks to the famous case of Edward Snowden's NSA confessions and, most recently, what has been dubbed as Swiss Leaks, where information about billions of dollars in tax evasion in the Switzerland branch of HSBC has come out to the public - and now there's even Google WikiLeaks.

According to a report by The Guardian from late January, the first recent issue between Google and WikiLeaks happened last month, after the tech giant disclosed that it had handed different kind of data (including e-mails) of three of WikiLeaks' staff members to a branch of the United States government, after a federal judge issued a search warrant against them.

While this information came out to the public only a few weeks ago, the papers were served in March 2012, nearly three years ago.

RT reports that the Google and WikiLeaks problem didn't end there, as last May, a judge agreed to unseal the orders from 2012, at least to inform them whether their intimate data of different sorts had been compromised - which it had been, though it took from May until December Google to actually make the information available for the WikiLeaks staff members to see.

In fact, the three staff members had seen the information in the last days of 2014, but it has only now been made public for the rest of the world.

Investigative reporter Alexa O'Brien stated that the Google WikiLeaks search warrant hadn't been made public before due to tech company being under a "gag" order which prohibited them from showing the FBI papers to the staffers until December 2014.