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| Google In Battle Over Privacy | |
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| abuturab82 | Jan 20 2006, 04:14 AM Post #1 |
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Google in battle over privacy Google has rejected the Bush administration's demand to access what millions of people have been looking up on the internet's leading search engine - a request that underscores the potential for online databases to become tools for government surveillance. Mountain View, California-based Google has refused to comply with a White House subpoena first issued last summer, prompting US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales this week to ask a federal judge in San Jose for an order to hand over the requested records. The government wants a list of all requests entered into Google's search engine during an unspecified single week - a breakdown that could conceivably span tens of millions of queries. In addition, it seeks 1 million randomly selected web addresses from various Google databases. In court papers, the Bush administration depicts the information as vital in its effort to restore online child protection laws that have been struck down by the US Supreme Court. Yahoo, which runs the internet's second-most used search engine behind Google, confirmed that it had complied with a similar government subpoena. Although the government says it isn't seeking any data that ties personal information to search requests, the subpoena still raises serious privacy concerns, experts said. Those worries have been magnified by recent revelations that the White House authorised eavesdropping on civilian communications after the September 11 attacks without obtaining court approval. The content of search request sometimes contain information about the person making the query. For instance, it's not unusual for search requests to include names, medical profiles or Social Security information, said Pam Dixon, executive director for the World Privacy Forum. Every other search engine served similar subpoenas by the Bush administration has complied so far, according to court documents. The co-operating search engines were not identified. © Copyright Press Association Ltd 2006, All Rights Reserved. http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=96792006 |
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