RE: AOL: 'We Did Not Comply With All of the DOJ's SearchDataRequest

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

Now this makes sense to me. I've been suspicious of Google's motives in this
all along and the idea that they're protecting anyone's privacy doesn't wash

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Mary Landesman
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:25 AM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] AOL: 'We Did Not Comply With All of the DOJ's
SearchDataRequest

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_c
x_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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