Uncle Sam Wants Your Google Search Records

[ghi]

Though Google has refused to comply with the government's request for search data, AOL, MSN and Yahoo admitted that they did comply and gave some data to the Justice Department, reports Red Herring. A Yahoo spokesperson said it provided data that company executives believed did not violate Yahoo's privacy guidelines. An AOL spokesperson said it provided a "generic list of aggregate and anonymous search terms." A Microsoft representative, too, said it gave search-term data but not information about the customers doing the searches.>
 



Google has refused to do so, saying it would violate the privacy rights of users and reveal trade secrets. "Google is not a party to this lawsuit, and the demand for the information is overreaching," said Nicole Wong, an associate general counsel for Google.

"The government can't even claim that it's for national security," according to one privacy advocate "They're just using it to get the search engines to do their research for them in a way that compromises the civil liberties of other people.">


 

 

[Sixpence]

you liberal terrorist lover!

[rpm]

The thought police are next.

[Eagler]

glad I search for my porn on ask Jeeves

[NUKE]

Uncle Sam doesn't want your search records.

The request was for google to provide overall search field data over a one week period. No personal information was to be included in any way....only search phrases overall.

The purpose was to verify the amount of child porn searches being conducted.

[Meatwad]

That looks like Richard Nixon in the picture

[Yeager]

freedom means what exactly? freedom to break the law in private?

In other words I can break whatever law I want and as long as no one else knows about my illegal behavior I am protected by privacy?

[capt. apathy]

freedom means they need to have probable cause that a crime has been/is being committed in order to violate your right to privacy.

[Hangtime]

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. [/B]

[Delirium]

Who cares about this?

How embarrassed can I be being hauled into court for my numerous 'P38 Lightning' searches?

[Yeager]

against unreasonable searches and seizures
====
who gets to define unreasonable?

What happens if an unreasonable search results in the discovery of a murdered child?







freedom means they need to have probable cause
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If 80% of the crimes commited in my neighborhood are done between 1am and 3am, by a narrow age group of males 18-23 yrs old of a latino ethnicity......

Does that mean that a lawman can stop a carload full of 20 yr old male latinos driving around at 2 am while doing nothing obviously illegal based on probable cause demonstrated by the statistics?

[GtoRA2]

Originally posted by Yeager
against unreasonable searches and seizures
====
who gets to define unreasonable?

What happens if an unreasonable search results in the discovery of a murdered child?







freedom means they need to have probable cause
====
If 80% of the crimes commited in my neighborhood are done between 1am and 3am, by a narrow age group of males 18-23 yrs old of a latino ethnicity......


Does that mean that a lawman can stop a carload full of 20 yr old male latinos driving around at 2 am while doing nothing obviously illegal based on probable cause demonstrated by the statistics?

Yeager.

At what point do you think we should start worrying about or freedoms slowly being chipped away? How many more little bits will you let the government take from us before you decide it has gone to far?



I am with hang, in my opinion they have already gone to far.

[ghi]

Originally posted by Sixpence
you liberal terrorist lover!

 Liberal ?!  I  don't live in your country, i don"t care about your politic,  
I was born and lived  under the comunist dictator Ceausescu /Security and high censorship,  i had enough
 Now here comes Bush to spy me from thousands of miles away !

IMOP the Internet , is best creation of the last century,  should stay free,

[*NDM*JohnnyX]

I frequently look up the steps in procuring an automatic firearms liscense, I'm doing this all legally and I want to do it by the books, no matter how long it takes. As an American citizen, I am able to do this if I file the proper paperwork.

I'd rather some desk gopher in Washington doesn't see some of my searches and read too far into things. Potentially dangerous.

[WhiteHawk]

Originally posted by Yeager
freedom means what exactly? freedom to break the law in private?

In other words I can break whatever law I want and as long as no one else knows about my illegal behavior I am protected by privacy?

Thats exactly right Yeager.  The laws of this country were forged by our founding fathers to protect the innocent, even if it means allowing 100 guilty to go free.  Thats the downside of freedom, a high crime rate.  If youve been watching the news, you have surely noticed the an alarming number of criminals  in our own govt.  Thats why we need to protect our constitution, just in case criminals take over, we can organize a civilian defense without having a microscope up our butt.