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| Monday, March 20, 2006 |
| Minor Victory for Google |
Google has been under fire recently.
Firstly there was the company decision to provide censored search results (complying with censorship laws) to China. Some argue that this is contrary to the company motto 'do no evil'. However as Google have explained they are merely providing a service. In addition, they are not shipping users to the govt the way other search engines (Yahoo) have done.
The US Govt has had demands made to prevent Google from operating under authoritarian regimes, however this is the same govt who are trying to get access to user information from Google's databases. Fortunately a US Judge has seen reason:
In his 21-page ruling today, US District Judge James Ware told Google to provide the US Justice Department with the addresses of 50,000 randomly selected web sites indexed by its search engine by April 3.
Ware, though, decided Google won't have to disclose what people have been looking for on its widely used search engine, handing a significant victory to the company and privacy rights advocates.
This is a significant victory given the original request from the Govt was for an entire week's worth of Google search requests - a list that would encompass queries posed by millions of people.
Yay 1 for the people. |
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