feds ask google for its data

["David Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: for ip: feds ask google for its data

Build a better mousetrap and the world's lawyers beat a path to your door.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13657386.htm

Feds after Google data
RECORDS SOUGHT IN U.S. QUEST TO REVIVE PORN LAW
By Howard Mintz
Mercury News


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.''

...

Thomas Claburn, Editor-at-Large
InformationWeek
tclaburn () cmp com



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