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Government Goes After AOL, Google, MSN, Yahoo User Data
Posted by Pile
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The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases.
The move is part of a government effort to revive an Internet child protection law struck down two years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court. The law was meant to punish online pornography sites that make their content accessible to minors. The government contends it needs the Google data to determine how often pornography shows up in online searches.
It's worth noting that while Google is fighting this, AOL, Yahoo and MSN coughed up their users' data without much hooplah. SNL made fun of the Google story Saturday but neglected to mention their parent company, Time-Warner owns AOL and was involved in the issue.
Perhaps it really is true that Google intends to be less evil. In any case, it doesn't say much for MSN or Yahoo, or the users who were foolish enough to use them for their search engine. Buh-Bye Privacy! |
In court papers filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Justice Department lawyers revealed that Google has refused to comply with a subpoena issued last year for the records, which include a request for 1 million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period. |
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You go, Google
Posted by wizeGurl on 2006-01-19 11:45:21 | | Because you know that Yahoo or Microsoft would have turned those records over so fast, it would make your head spin. |
| Posted by Pile on 2006-01-19 23:01:31 | | And they did.... *edit* |
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