Google - Champions of Internet Privacy

[Jim84]

Google refuse to cooperate with State Dept

When is the government going to far? I have no problem with using these records to catch paedophile etc..

But when the search engine is used to harass anti-war activist, how many people would be willing to Google (Bush should be arrested for war crimes) if you know the State Dept in America is going to see who is asking the question.

Fair Play to Google!

[KingKane]

Actually, the US government isn't planning to use this stuff to catch paedophiles. Their intent is to demostrate that porngraphic images can be accessed by children without any attempt to validate their age.

Essentially, a 15 year can look at dirty pictures. The overreeach is in the US governments request to all search records for a defined time period irrespective of their nature. All the results of classic conservative double talk on big government.

[Pidge]

I don't know how true it is, but Google Watch is interesting.

[keira]

Google refuse to cooperate with State Dept

When is the government going to far? I have no problem with using these records to catch paedophile etc..

But when the search engine is used to harass anti-war activist, how many people would be willing to Google (Bush should be arrested for war crimes) if you know the State Dept in America is going to see who is asking the question.

Fair Play to Google!

How would that even be legal?

[Jim84]

How would that even be legal?

The court issued a subpoena for the 5 biggest search engines to hand over the information ... only Google refused

[keira]

How many people searched for 2 + 2 = 5, I wonder?

[Jim84]

How many people searched for 2 + 2 = 5, I wonder?

Results 1 - 10 of about 51,600,000 for 2+2=5

[Gladstone]

Actually, the US government isn't planning to use this stuff to catch paedophiles. Their intent is to demostrate that porngraphic images can be accessed by children without any attempt to validate their age.

Essentially, a 15 year can look at dirty pictures. The overreeach is in the US governments request to all search records for a defined time period irrespective of their nature. All the results of classic conservative double talk on big government.

The US supreme court has already ruled that it's the parents job to regulate what their kids do on the net, not the govt, in the same case they struck down the Communications Decency Act as unconstitutional.

[keira]

How many people searched for 2 + 2 = 5, I wonder?

Results 1 - 10 of about 51,600,000 for 2+2=5

Well I thought it was funny. Just goes to show the American inadequacy. They're 22 years behind schedule!

[Jim84]

The US supreme court has already ruled that it's the parents job to regulate what their kids do on the net, not the govt, in the same case they struck down the Communications Decency Act as unconstitutional.

My layman’s understanding of this latest subpoena is to show ho w easy it is to find pornography on the internet, and are rewriting the law.