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

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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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"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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