eurovol
Jan 20 2006, 8:58 am
Google Rebuffs Feds on Search RequestsQUOTE
SAN FRANCISCO - 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.
Google was not the only one asked, but perhaps the only one to say "NO".
sarabyrd
Jan 20 2006, 9:05 am
That's one in Dubyah's eye. Good for Google!
Hutcho
Jan 20 2006, 10:03 am
Good on Google..
Isn't "small government" one of the founding principles that the Republicans adhere to? Even they should be up-in-arms about this..
kaiserf
Jan 20 2006, 10:12 am
QUOTE (Hutcho @ Jan 20 2006, 10:03 am)
...principles that the Republicans adhere to?
cognitive dissonance overload
Inflatablewoman
Jan 20 2006, 11:10 am
QUOTE (sarabyrd @ Jan 20 2006, 9:05 am)
That's one in Dubyah's eye. Good for Google!
But now the terrorisst will be able to search!!!
THIS IS DANGEROUS!!! [img]http://www.keithball.net/img/smileys/dancejihad1tf.gif[/img]
Hutcho
Jan 20 2006, 11:28 am
Watch out.. that is the type of search that will get you arrested.. hang on, I clicked on your link! Damn you! Looks like we're going down together..
Inflatablewoman
Jan 20 2006, 11:47 am
I never clicked it... muahahhaahahahahahahahahahahahahha. I already know they are watching me anyways.
Infact I'll take this oppotunity to say Hello, Lieutenant Johnson, my ever watchful agent friend. *wave*
gemini
Jan 20 2006, 3:24 pm
In a new twist on George Bush's policies of completely dismantling any privacy protections, the U.S. Justice Dept. has apparently issued a supena to Google to allow the U.S. government to see what people are searching for".
This allegedly ties into some belief the government has that google has allowed underaged children to search porno sites. DOUBT IT! And is supposed to be only a narrow time frame of a week or so that they would gather data from.
Google states it will absolutely not comply. Will be a very interesting case to watch.
Do you really want the U.S. Government to know what you search?
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perdido
Jan 20 2006, 3:25 pm
didnt someone post this already?
Pengo
Jan 20 2006, 3:30 pm
I just read on Slashdot that Yahoo, AOL, MSN all complied with Department of Justice's request for the logs. GO GOOGLE!!!
gemini
Jan 20 2006, 3:34 pm
yhea, just saw that, but it didn't show up in my TT search under "google". Mods can you remove!!!
grazzenger
Jan 20 2006, 3:40 pm
i can't remember where i read it, but some mega-brain historian, social observer type guy said that the country which could most easily become a nazi-type state would be the US. if bush and his evil cronies are allowed to continue in this manner, i can see what he was talking about.
Darkknight
Jan 20 2006, 3:56 pm
I say that starting Monday, we all goto all the search engines and do a search for stuff like "Impeach That bastard Bush", Bush is an a$$ hole, etc..
georgiagirl
Jan 20 2006, 4:01 pm
I just spent a good two minutes and thirty seconds trying to figure out what a "supena" was. I even looked it up in the Cambridge Dictionary.
Damn you people for making me feel stupid.
papa_geno
Jan 20 2006, 4:08 pm
@Darkknight: You're just starting those searches now?
Pirulero
Jan 20 2006, 4:12 pm
isnt it spelt something like "subpoena"?
maybe thats just in "proper" English...not the abomination they speak over in googleland.
Keydeck
Jan 20 2006, 4:13 pm
QUOTE (Pirulero @ Jan 20 2006, 4:12 pm)
isnt it spelt something like "soebpena"?
maybe thats just in "proper" English...not the abomination they speak over in googleland.
Subpoena, from Latin, meaning under penalty, I think.
Pirulero
Jan 20 2006, 4:14 pm
hehe
isnt that what the edit function is for? ,)
georgiagirl
Jan 20 2006, 4:15 pm
Keydeck
Jan 20 2006, 4:17 pm
QUOTE (Pirulero @ Jan 20 2006, 4:14 pm)
hehe
isnt that what the edit function is for? ,)
Good lad. You're learning. I knew you couldn't be really be as slow as they told me you were.
perdido
Jan 20 2006, 4:39 pm
If you type in "fuck Munich" on google Toytown we come up forth. We neeed to regain the #1 spot
papa_geno
Jan 20 2006, 5:33 pm
Don't try that phrase with the double quote marks, because then we don't come up until much, much later.
eurovol
Jan 20 2006, 5:41 pm
Yeah, but "Zweite Heimat - Munich" is now in 5th place.
OhFFS
Jan 20 2006, 7:35 pm
QUOTE (Darkknight @ Jan 20 2006, 4:56 pm)
I say that starting Monday, we all goto all the search engines and do a search for stuff like "Impeach That bastard Bush", Bush is an a$$ hole, etc..
Or just
http://blog.outer-court.com/patriot/The Privacy Policy, Search Syntax and such like are worth a read.
OhFFS
Jan 20 2006, 7:38 pm
Hmm. Anyone fancy starting a "who is the most evil man in the world" Googlebomb directed at www.whitehouse.gov?
interplanetjanet
Jan 20 2006, 8:20 pm
Thanks a lot, IW! Your link is sure to give me trouble, given my
current predicament.
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