www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20...google.html
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19 - The Justice Department has asked a federal judge to compel Google, the Internet search giant, to turn over records on millions of its users' search queries as part of the government's effort to uphold an online pornography law.
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Text: U.S. Motion Against Google
Google has been refusing the request since a subpoena was first issued last August, even as three of its competitors agreed to provide information, according to court documents made public this week. Google asserts that the request is unnecessary, overly broad, would be onerous to comply with, would jeopardize its trade secrets and could expose identifying information about its users.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19 - The Justice Department has asked a federal judge to compel Google, the Internet search giant, to turn over records on millions of its users' search queries as part of the government's effort to uphold an online pornography law.
Skip to next paragraph
Text: U.S. Motion Against Google
Google has been refusing the request since a subpoena was first issued last August, even as three of its competitors agreed to provide information, according to court documents made public this week. Google asserts that the request is unnecessary, overly broad, would be onerous to comply with, would jeopardize its trade secrets and could expose identifying information about its users.
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Sat, January 21, 2006 - 10:16 AMPosted on Thu, Jan. 19, 2006
Feds after Google data
By Howard Mintz
Mercury News
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.
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.
The Mountain View-based search and advertising giant opposes releasing the information on a variety of grounds, saying it would violate the privacy rights of its users and reveal company trade secrets, according to court documents.
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Sat, January 21, 2006 - 11:43 AMpersonally I don't think it has anything to so with porn at all... they just want to look for who is searching for illegal activity PERIOD... So they poor guy who wants to back up his CDs or DVD's or video games will soon be zapped with a law suit because he looked it up on google...
or they want to know who is out to kill George Bush...
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Mon, January 23, 2006 - 11:00 AMYes Tim i hear you its just the principle and potential for political abuse ... you can round up all of deans supporters tooo..you know moniter all those left wing sites... its not like thy are getting ISP and then gettin with the provider to search down the peeps ....that takes court order..this a good article with podcast on this issue...
www.cbsnews.com/stories/20...27390.shtml
Recent revelations that the Bush Administration is trying to get Google to turn over search records has sent chills down the spines of some Web surfers who worry whether what they search for in Google will stay with Google or wind up in government hands.
The case raises a number of privacy questions, including whether or not it's appropriate for search companies like Google to be storing this information in the first place.
To help answer that question, I interviewed Steve Gibson, the founder of Gibson Research and one of the leading authorities on privacy and Internet security.
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