Government wants Google to reveal your porn habit

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 1/20/06 at 6:17am

Of course, it's all about "the children".
That's the official excuse, anyway.
And congrats to Google for resisting it.

Google Records Subpoenaed in Porn Probe

SAN FRANCISCO (Jan. 19) - Google Inc. has been subpoenaed by the U.S. Justice Department to turn over a database of search terms as part of a government probe of online pornography but Google rejected the demand as overreaching by the government.

In a Wednesday filing in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the Justice Department demanded that Google provide all queries entered on the company's Web search system between June 1 and July 31 of last year.

The Justice Department includes a request for Google to produce a random sample of one million Web addresses, known as URLs.

The data request is part of a broader government effort to track the effectiveness of a 1998 law, the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA, which penalizes Web site operators who allow children to view pornography, the filing said.

A 2004 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Ashcroft vs ACLU, upheld an injunction that blocked the government from enforcing the law and the Justice Department is seeking evidence from Google and others as part of an appeal of this injunction.

The motion by U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez vs. Google details the negotiations between the government and Google's lawyers, who have resisted the request as overreaching, burdensome and a violation of trade secrets.

"Google is not a party to this lawsuit and their demand for information overreaches," Nicole Wong, Google's associate general counsel, said in a statement. "We had lengthy discussions with them to try to resolve this, but were not able to and we intend to resist their motion vigorously."

[Elphaba]

Posted: 1/20/06 at 11:52am

already posted here yesterday ......

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=883465&boardname=off&dt=011906064043

Updated On: 1/20/06 at 11:52 AM

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 1/20/06 at 12:08pm

Sell your GOOG stock

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 1/20/06 at 12:47pm

If multiple postings are good enough for Greg Jbara,
they're good enough for me!

Updated On: 1/20/06 at 12:47 PM

[Elphaba]

Posted: 1/20/06 at 1:03pm

hehehe, point taken!

[Auggie27]

Posted: 1/20/06 at 1:17pm

Maybe Jeff Gannon will become the ogling google czar.

"Jeffie, you're givin' a heck of--er, DOING a heckof a job..."

[WOSQ]

Posted: 1/20/06 at 2:39pm

Clarence Thomas better not leave his house.