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Feds subpoenae Google

         

longen

9:31 pm on Jan 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

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pron investigation...
a request for 1 million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period,

Although Google pledges to protect personal information, the company's privacy policy says it complies with legal and government requests. Google also has no stated guidelines on how long it keeps data, leading critics to warn that retention is potentially forever given cheap storage costs.

longen

9:41 pm on Jan 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Url for that
[mercurynews.com ]

kaled

11:36 pm on Jan 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I find it hard to see how any information Google could provide would help the Government in this case. Sounds to me more like the Government is trying to set a legal precedent and is using Child Pornography merely as an excuse.

In any case, it is not Google's job to provide information for law makers, they are merely required to provide information to assist in the conviction, etc. of law breakers. There is a vast gulf between the two.

Kaled.