Do you Google?...

[JoeChalupa]

Good job Google!!

Google rebuffs feds' search requests (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GOOGLE_RECORDS?SITE=TXSAE&SECTION=TECHNOLOGY&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT)

Google rebuffs feds on search requests

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
AP Business Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. is rebuffing the Bush administration's demand for a peek at what millions of people have been looking up on the Internet's leading search engine - a request that underscores the potential for online databases to become tools for government surveillance.

Mountain View-based Google has refused to comply with a White House subpoena first issued last summer, prompting U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales this week to ask a federal judge in San Jose for an order to hand over the requested records.

The government wants a list all requests entered into Google's search engine during an unspecified single week - a breakdown that could conceivably span tens of millions of queries. In addition, it seeks 1 million randomly selected Web addresses from various Google databases.

In court papers that the San Jose Mercury News reported on after seeing them Wednesday, the Bush administration depicts the information as vital in its effort to restore online child protection laws that have been struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Yahoo Inc., which runs the Internet's second-most used search engine behind Google, confirmed Thursday that it had complied with a similar government subpoena.

~~What a bunch of yahoos.

[Trainwreck2100]

That's gonna be money well spent sorting through those millions of sites.

[Yonivore]

Yeah Google! Way to protect a child's right to find porn on the internet.

[Trainwreck2100]

Yeah Google! Way to protect a child's right to find porn on the internet.


It's not google's fault if parents can't secure the own computers

[boutons_]

Repugs legislating morality and sticking their dicks in where it's none of their business.

Surely the Repugs, corrupt to the core, will sell the search engine data to corps, or give it to corps that contribute to the Repugs.

[Oh, Gee!!]

Yeah Google! Way to protect a child's right to find porn on the internet.


Yeah Bush! Way to use your position of power to spy on Americans

[JoeChalupa]

Stop going to porn sites Yoni and your kids won't have such easy access to the links.

I thought republicans are for small government? Seems like they want their hands in everything.

[Ocotillo]

I thought republicans are for small government?

No, actually these days they want government in private aspects of our lives. On one hand, they want cut the number of Dept of Ag inspectors but then they want to see where you are going on the internet.

They want to cut Medicaid but then they want to give Big Pharma a windfall in the form of Medicare reform.

Corporate welfare is big with the Repubs as they pay back the sordid interests that grease their palms.

[spurster]

Google is not a party in this court case. Why should they have to provide any records for the government?

[Das Texan]

ya i mean i really dont get it. let's just have more of big brother looking down upon us. the founding fathers must be absoltuely turning over in their graves.