Government requesting Search Engine Data
Court Documents & Summary Of United States Versus Google Over Search Data
As a means of "protecting the children" (through the Children's Online Protection Act), the US government had requested from Google, MSN, and Yahoo URL and search information in order to find "harmful-to-minors" material. MSN has supposedly complied fully, Yahoo has complied in a modified form, but Google has continued to fight this in the courts.
I have a great problem with this. No government "owns" the internet. This generation of the internet that was designed with the free flow of information (sometimes too free a flow). The genie is already out of the bottle and there is nothing the governments can realistically do to keep it in.
If the US government wants the google search information, maybe they should learn on how to put the queries into the search engines itself. It should not request the search engine habits of its citizens.
As a means of "protecting the children" (through the Children's Online Protection Act), the US government had requested from Google, MSN, and Yahoo URL and search information in order to find "harmful-to-minors" material. MSN has supposedly complied fully, Yahoo has complied in a modified form, but Google has continued to fight this in the courts.
I have a great problem with this. No government "owns" the internet. This generation of the internet that was designed with the free flow of information (sometimes too free a flow). The genie is already out of the bottle and there is nothing the governments can realistically do to keep it in.
If the US government wants the google search information, maybe they should learn on how to put the queries into the search engines itself. It should not request the search engine habits of its citizens.
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