I would now expect to see the U.S. Congress holding hearings congratulating Google for refusing to provide user information to a government that requests it.
Yeah right!
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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Google, Inc. [corporate website] formally rejected a subpoena [PDF text; JURIST report] from the US Department of Justice [official website] for search data on Friday, arguing [Google response, PDF] that the subpoena violated the privacy of Google customers and its own trade secrets. Google also asserted that the government’s demand to disclose Google’s web searches was impractical, as the searches change on a daily basis and it would require at least a week for Google’s engineers to design a script to comply with the demand. The Bush administration seeks to force Google and other internet search engines to turn over web search data in an effort to support its defense of the Child Online Protection Act [text]. Rival companies Microsoft Corp. [corporate website] and Yahoo! Inc. [corporate website] have already complied with the government’s demands. The hearing on the DOJ’s motion to force Google to hand over its search data is scheduled to begin March 13 in San Jose.
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