Google Avoids Surrendering Search Requests

[mvd]

Well, not a total victory, but at least the most personal stuff (the queries) won't be given out.


Google Avoids Surrendering Search Requests

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer 26 minutes ago

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge on Friday ordered Google Inc. to give the Bush administration a peek inside its search engine, but rebuffed the government's demand for a list of people's search requests — potentially sensitive information that the company had fought to protect.

In his 21-page ruling, U.S. District Judge James Ware told Google to provide the U.S. Justice Department with the addresses of 50,000 randomly selected Web sites indexed by its search engine by April 3.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060318/ap_on_hi_te/google_justice_department

[Nutmegger]

1. The "protecting children from porn" is such a joke.

I thought this was suppose to be "small government".

[mvd]

3. I doubt protecting them is their real intent

They just want more Big Brother.

[Starfury]

11. The Internet is the last venue of free speech.

This search request for Google's records is the first (small) step to establish control.

[Ian David]

13. I'd rather protect children from poverty, pollution and war! n/t

[anotherdrew]

19. unfortunately that would take real effort and...

not effort from the authoritarian dick-heads that bush only employs. We need to start keeping a list of every name of every one of bush admins appointments and new hires so that they can be fired on day one.

[sam sarrha]

2. "randomly.". voids the need for a warrent..???

[bluestateguy]

4. I wonder what's next.

Wikipedia searches?

[sheelz]

5. They will take a peek

and find some justification to take it all. Google would be stupid to trust those bastard!

[frogmarch]

6. Total BS

is what this spying demand by the Bush administration is. Cracking down on child porn, my butt. It's really about sticking their noses into the private lives of citizens.

Okay, so exactly what Google information did the judge authorize the Bush administration to "peek" at?

Fascist asshats.

(Edited for spelling.)

[Sgent]

7. The government effectively lost

50,000 random websites is a nearly useless result -- the government could have gotten much the same results by doing their own random searching on the DNS databases(which are public & overseen by the government).

They were denied entirely the ability to see user searches, and to get results from user searches. Bravo Google, to hell with MSN and Yahoo.

[Richard Steele]

8. Yeah, that's the real irony: they could have just Googled it.

[AndyTiedye]

10. They Could Infer it From Rankings. That's Not What They're After

They are trying to make people afraid to look up certain things on the net.
That's why the big, high-profile court case. If they just wanted the data,
the NSA would have gotten it for them. They can tap into everything.
Do you think that doesn't include Google?

[file83]

20. Google, through the Government's eyes...

[AndyTiedye]

9. I am Sure The Regime Finds These Pictures Very Offensive

And I found them all on Google:

The Peace Palace, The Hague, Netherlands...


Home of the International Criminal Court

This is the prison wing...

...home of convicted war criminals.

Perhaps, some day, it will be their home:


They may also observe the rapidly-increasing number of hits on the

Reichstag Fire

I have used the number of hits on "Reichstag Fire" as a sort of index of
how many people "get it". It is likely that those inside the regime find
that a useful index as well.

[Ian David]

12. Everyone Google "Judge James Ware reprimanded"

Everyone Google "Judge James Ware reprimanded"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=Judge+James+Ware+reprimanded%22&btnG=Search

[nolabels]

15. Fraud is such a common denominator with some of these folks

To go on for years into adulthood past their forties and fifties even making shit up about who the eff and what ever. I wonder if them red state republicans would support that same party if they really knew how much they were lied to :shrug:

Btw if you were to ask me I would say a calling people out on side that is dealing in deceit is good policy.

[sellitman]

14. That's great news!

Now I can keep a little faith in at least one internet giant, and my gmail box.

[Festivito]

16. I hope Google will choose the randomosity. /nt

[TankLV]

17. Google should ERASE/DELETE all such search records after a day or so.

So should other search engines.

Why is it ever necessary to keep all searches forever? Don't they just end up taking up more and more storage space?

SOMEBODY who has access to these records in these companies should step forward NOW and erase all traces of searches NOW!

After all, they'd only be doing exactly what bush* & cheney have been doing for YEARS.

Let THEM sweat for a change!

"OPPS - everything was "accidentally" erased!" "Now how did that happen?!"

It's simple, see?!

[fshrink]

18. And Yahoo didn't even blink.

When you resist, you win. Even if you lose. Compare that to our elected officials... 1% of them is worth my vote.