Re: Huh? Google Ordered to Give Up Web Sites, Not Search Terms

["Thomas C. Greene" <thomas.greene () theregister co uk>]

It's a mutual face-saving deal worked out between Google and DoJ.  The judge 
is merely rubber-stamping it.  DoJ will let Google look noble, which it needs 
desperately to do after sending God knows how many Chinese dissidents to 
their deaths, and Google will give DoJ info it can use to justify the COPA.  
"Of 50,000 Google users, x were directed to porn sites, Senator.  It's a 
jungle out there..."

chrz,
t.


On Friday 17 March 2006 9:22 pm, Fergie wrote:
> Huh?
>
> This seems somewhat contrary to me on its face. Wasn't the whole
> point to compile statistics on searches and search criteria in an
> effort to provide data on the U.S. Government's case to plead in
> favor of a more expansive COPA?
>
> [snip]
>
> A federal judge on Friday denied a request by the U.S. Justice Department
> for specific terms customers used to search Google Inc.'s Web database but
> will require Google to turn over 50,000 Web addresses.
>
> In a widely anticipated, 21-page ruling that has implications for the
> privacy of Internet users, Judge James Ware of the U.S. District for the
> Northern District of California said privacy considerations led him to deny
> the government demand in part.
>
> [snip]
>
> More here:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060318/wr_nm/google_ruling_dc
>
> - ferg
>
> --
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