Google just says no to releasing info on tens of millions of queries...
there are evidently no lengths to which bushco will not go to eliminate the privacy rights of u.s. citizens...
as a regular google search engine user, i know some of my queries will be part of the information requested... meanwhile, osama is still out there, eluding capture and essentially giving us the finger... Submit To Propeller
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Google Inc. is rebuffing the Bush administration's demand for a peek at 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-based Google has refused to comply with a White House subpoena first issued last summer, prompting U.S. 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 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.
as a regular google search engine user, i know some of my queries will be part of the information requested... meanwhile, osama is still out there, eluding capture and essentially giving us the finger... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
1/20/2006
