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Posted on Fri, Mar. 17, 2006
Google avoids surrendering search requests to government
MICHAEL LIEDTKE
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge on Friday ordered Google Inc. to give the Bush administration a peek inside its Internet-leading search engine, but rebuffed the goverment's demand for a list of people's search requests - potentially sensitive information that the company had fought to protect.
In his 21-page ruling, U.S. District Judge James Ware told Google to provide the U.S. Justice Department with the addresses of 50,000 randomly selected Web sites indexed by its search engine by April 3.
The government plans to use the data for a study in another case in Pennsylvania, where the Bush administration is trying to revive a law meant to shield children from online pornography.
Ware, though, decided Google won't have to disclose what people have been looking for on its widely used search engine, handing a significant victory to the company and privacy rights advocates.
"This is a clear victory for our users," Nicole Wong, Google's associate general counsel said in a statement Friday.
Attempts to reach a spokesman for the Justice Department late Friday weren't immediately successful.
The government had asked for the contents of 5,000 randomly selected search requests, dramatically scaling back its initial demands after Google's vehement protests gained widespread attention.
When the Justice Department first turned to Ware for help in January, the government wanted an entire week's worth of Google search requests - a list that would encompass queries posed by millions of people.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/politics/14126651.htm
Jewish criminality came way before Herzl founding the ideology of Zionism.
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Posted : 17/03/2006 7:00 pm
They have no problem cooperating with the commies in China though ! 
Posted : 17/03/2006 11:53 pm
They have no problem cooperating with the commies in China though !
In no way do I want to give any impression whatsover that I'm pro-Jewish-owned Google. (Hell, everything is owned or controlled by liberal Jews anyway.) However I'm pleased with and applaud Google for defending its right to keep its data from falling into the hands of the government (at least for now). Keep in mind that Google's competitors quickly caved in to government demands.
Government internet surveillance is clearly wrong. U.S. citizens are already becoming a bit skittish and squeamish about posting messages on blogs, forums, etc. Absolute privacy for everything on the internet should be sacred and guaranteed. The government has no right to cherry-pick and poke around to see who's "misbehaving."
If the government has its way, a gang of jack-booted federal thugs could show up at ones front door demanding an explanation for certain things one has put on the net -- just like the federal, flame-throwing, rocket and mortar attack in Waco.
As far as Google cooperating with the Chinese government, Google probably had no choice. Resistance would have been futile -- it was either cooperate or get out!
Posted : 18/03/2006 7:40 am