Source: ABC 7 News
A federal judge intends to bow down to the Bush Administration's request for private search information in the "war on porn."
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP)--A federal judge said Tuesday he intends to require Google Inc. to turn over some information to the Department of Justice in its quest to revive a law making it harder for children to see online pornography. U.S. District Judge James Ware did not immediately say whether the data will include words that users entered into the Internet's leading search engine.
The legal showdown over how much of the Web's vast databases should be shared with the government has pitted the Bush administration against the Mountain View-based company, which resisted a subpoena to turn over any information because of user privacy and trade secret concerns.
The Justice Department downplayed Google's concerns, arguing it doesn't want any personal information nor any data that would undermine the company's thriving business.
A lawyer for the Justice Department told Ware that the government would like to have a random selection of 50,000 Web addresses and 5,000 random search requests from Google, a small fraction of the millions the government originally sought.
This little request from the government is just a small part in the daily orchestrated attacks on people's freedoms. Come on, people...wake up and smell the roses. They are taking all the freedoms they can, and you're sitting there, looking the other way while they do it!
Tags: [war on freedom], [civil liberties], [Google court case], [Google], [war on porn], [government porn wars]
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