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Privacy experts condemn Google subpoena
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Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Is it me or is the US government starting to behave more like China?
Right-to-privacy groups said Friday that an attempt by the Bush administration to force Google to turn over a broad range of materials from its databases has set a dangerous precedent that should worry all Americans.
"This is the camel's nose under the tent for using search engines and all kinds of data aggregators as surveillance tools," said Jim Harper of the libertarian Cato Institute who also runs Privacilla.org, an Internet privacy database.
The Bush administration is already under fire from a number of rights groups over security measures it has taken since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America, including pursuing checks on library records and eavesdropping on some telephone calls.
In court papers filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., the Justice Department stated that Google had refused to comply with a subpoena issued last year for 1 million random Web addresses from Google's databases as well as records of all searches entered on Google during any one-week period.
The government said it needed the information to prepare its case to revive the 1998 Child Online Protection Act, which the Supreme Court blocked from taking effect two years ago.
The law prohibited Internet companies from knowingly making available obscene or pornographic material to minors. The Supreme Court said there were potential constitutional problems with the law and sent the case back to a lower court for consideration. It is expected to be heard later this year.
The Justice Department said Friday that America Online, Yahoo and Microsoft had all complied with similar requests.
More info can be found here.
In a related story, Google's shares have fallen 8% due to this fiasco.
Google shares story.
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
I call BS on the child porn reason given by the government. I highly doubt that's the only thing they want it for.
Posted by: The Pirate
Actually, the camels head is already in the tent. It got a big boost with McCain's campaign finance bill which DID take away some of our first amendment free speech rights 60 days before an election. That was followed up by the supreme court ruling that the government, in Connecticut, could take away a private citizeness property and give it to somebody else for private use.
Posted by: Bishop
Welcome to america, where it's cool to be in the know and on top of things... until time comes to actually do anything about it.
Posted by: redwench
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Originally Posted by The Pirate
It got a big boost with McCain's campaign finance bill which DID take away some of our first amendment free speech rights 60 days before an election.
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thats not free speach, thats free money 
Posted by: Bushidobull
Good for Google, But I still dont like them
Posted by: gam3r
Im sure they can find other ways of removing child porn from the internt other than collecting search engine information.
Posted by: Bishop
Google doesn't like you, either.
Posted by: Bushidobull
Ah the sun is warm and the grass is green ..
Posted by: gam3r
I heard an interesting story from a kid at school the other day... Apparently his brother received child pornography in his email spam inbox and the fbi showed up at his house... Thats crazy lol.
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