Re: AOL: 'We Did Not Comply With All of the DOJ's Search DataRequest

["Mary Landesman" <mlande () bellsouth net>]

Here's an interesting perspective on Google's claims that they only want to
protect us:

Why Google Won't Give In
http://www.forbes.com/technology/ebusiness/2006/01/24/internet-search-porn_cx_ckrr_0124google.html

-- Mary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
To: <funsec () linuxbox org>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 7:28 PM
Subject: [funsec] AOL: 'We Did Not Comply With All of the DOJ's Search
DataRequest


As my father always told me,"In for a penny, in for a pound."

Via Boing Boing.

[snip]

Yesterday, I asked Justice Department spokesperson Charles Miller which
search companies other than Google the administration sought search data
from, back in 2005. Mr. Miller said that in addition to Google -- which has
refused to provide the requested information -- AOL, Yahoo, and MSN were
also asked, and those three companies complied. Andrew Weinstein, Vice
President of Corporate Communications at America Online, tells Boing Boing:

"I saw in your posting that the DOJ is indicating that AOL complied with
their subpoena for user search records last fall. That is not accurate.

"We did receive a subpoena from the DOJ last fall, but we did not comply
with the requests made in that subpoena. Instead, we gave them a list of
aggregate and anonymous search terms that did not include any results nor
any personally-identifiable information."

[snip]

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/20/aol_we_did_not_compl.html

- ferg


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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