[Homestead] Google Avoids Surrendering Search Requests

abitcrazy abitcrazy at cox.net
Sat Mar 18 09:41:50 EST 2006


I hope this story about google turns everyone's blood cold.  We are 
witnessing history here, my fellow Americans, where we are turning into 
what the Soviet Union was in its height of repression, spying, and 
crushing of dissenters.  And google isn't all that innocent; it has 
agreed to censor what goes into China, and the military has blocked 
access to the Air America Radio site, but allows hate-mongering Rush 
Limbaugh, the drunken 4x divorcee, as well as sex-phone-addict Bill 
O'lying Reilly access to our troops, but they cannot hear the truth 
about the lies of the bush cabal.

everyone, please be sure to watch our "elected officials", write, call, 
and make sure they protect our freedoms, and at the next election, VOTE 
OUT EVERYONE that you can!

www.mediamatters.org
www.rawstory.com
www.truthout.org
www.projectcensored.org

and www.airamericaradio.com

Don't know about you'all, but I for one am trying to plan for survival 
when TEOTWAWKI happens!  (the end of the world as we know it)

arlene/phoenix

>> http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1333&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20060317%2F2154129782.htm&sc=1333
>>
>> Google Avoids Surrendering Search Requests
>>
>> By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
>>
>> SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - 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.
>>
>> The government plans to use the data for a study in another case in
>> Pennsylvania, where the Bush administration is trying to revive a law
>> meant to shield children from online pornography.
>>
>> Ware, though, decided Google won't have to disclose what people have
>> been looking for on its widely used search engine, handing a
>> significant victory to the company and privacy rights advocates.
>>
>> ``This is a clear victory for our users,'' Nicole Wong, Google's
>> associate general counsel said in a statement Friday.
>>
>> Attempts to reach a spokesman for the Justice Department late Friday
>> weren't immediately successful.
>>
>> The government had asked for the contents of 5,000 randomly selected
>> search requests, dramatically scaling back its initial demands after
>> Google's vehement protests gained widespread attention.
>>
>> When the Justice Department first turned to Ware for help in January,
>> the government wanted an entire week's worth of Google search requests
>> - a list that would encompass queries posed by millions of people.
>>
>> 03/17/06 21:54 
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