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Hmmmm good question.
I suppose if you aint doing nothing wrong then you have nothing to worry about.
And I am sure a majority of the population would like to see people dealing in child porn locked up.
But it might be opening pandora's box. I never want to see private information like medical records etc being accessed and this influencing medical insurance / health care etc. However I feel this is unlikely, but it makes me ponder.......
Google is right no one should be able to demand there data on there users....
why dont google move over her in the uk and they dont get no problems :)
^ Ok - I dont disrespect your position on the matter - but give us reasons why not?
Ok... Good sides- Maaybe a larger decreas in child pornogrophy and priratism.
Bas sides- If you ever search something like... (hmm, this is about to get really ackward) Erectile control techniques, they will know. That is just kinda creepy... You probably couldn't even do a private school report!
Pardon my rudeness, I cannot abide useless people.
If google went to Afghanistan and Iraq Bush wouldn't be talking..
Well people use google most of all because they know its google and them that know who accessing what if the usa government wants to know what people are searching for why dont they sieze every single omputer its the point that google principal is privacy......
so why shouldnt they repect the poeples privacy who use there search engine all the time?
Oh and why should the us governemtn be given access to what other countires are accessing???
if they made a law it owuld only affect the american sites so the american sites just move loaction and way hey they beat them
I can appreciate wanting to curb kids' access to porn, and access to search data would enable them to see how easy porn is to find, but, do people expect a degree of privacy when entering searches?
I know I do. I never expected that government would want to look at that.
The subpoena asks for search records for one week, to be named sometime. I don't believe that is a specific enough request. I also see this as more evidence that the Bush administration doesn't respect privacy at all.
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Thats the thing with the us government they always want to know what happening and want to make sure there in control...
Government agent 1: Hey, this person is looking up terrorism on google!
Government agent 2: What?! Give me all the info on him! This is a threat to national security!
Government agent 3: But..It looks to me that he's just looking for its history.
Government agent 2: Bull! It's a terrorist! We know where he lives!
Anyway, google doesn't want the government to have the files because everything will be sent to google, including personal searches that should never be in the hands of the government. If anything, this move sounds like something China would do.
Yeah,,, it does :S
Doesn't anyone else care about the fact that Yahoo, MSN, and AOL already complied with the government's subpoena?
Hurray for Google and boo the other guys!
So many points here.
1) If Google hadn't resisted, the government would have the info and there wouldn't have been any story and we wouldn't know anything about it.
2) I don't think it really has anything to do with porn. Google has search modifers which screen porn out if desired. Also, you can't tell who's looking at the porn, just that it was searched for at a certain computer. I think it was for of a test case to see if the Feds could get away with it.
3) If they really wanted to keep porn away from minors, they're require all adult sites to move to the.xxx domain and implement usernames and passwords after verifying the users age.
4) Another case where we're sold that the ends justify the means. The specter of minors accessing porn is the story, but I think its another attempt to invade our privacy.
5) Are they also studying how often pornagraphic books, magazines and videos end up in the hands of minors? Probably not. Again, a test case for using the Internet to track us.
Heh My teacher was tellin us on monday or someday that the federal law is lookin for people that research porn on google. And well found it here. School = PTT lol
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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.
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.
Nicole Wong, an associate general counsel for Google, said the company will fight the government's effort ``vigorously.''
I wonder what your take is on this story. This hits all of us 'netizens close to home. The feds ask Google, Yahoo, AOL, and MSN for data on what has been searched for over the Internet. Google stalls, says no, and is willing to fight to keep those private records private. AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft comply.
Does the government have a right to this info? Should Google comply, or should we be really wondering why the others gave up the data so easily?
Well?