Saturday, January 21, 2006

Uproar Grows Over US Demand for Google Search Records

TechNewsWorld


It is inevitable that the government will start to seek out data for other purposes if it succeeds with Google, attorney Thomas R. Burke warned. "The implications of are profound. People have got to come to realize that, eventually, s.

Following Thursday's revelation that the Bush Administration has ordered search-engine providers to turn over usage records, citizen rights advocates and attorneys have voiced alarm over what many say is an unprecedented invasion of privacy Latest News about privacy. The administration has said it needs to survey this data in order to build a case against exposing children to pornography on the Web.

"That information -- what a person searches for on the Internet Get Linux or Windows Managed Hosting Services with Industry Leading Fanatical Support. -- is not like knowing what brand of toothpaste he uses," said Thomas R. Burke, an attorney with Davis Wright Tremaine's Privacy and Security Group in San Francisco. "It is far, far more intimate," he told TechNewsWorld.

The nature of the information the government is seeking is not entirely clear. It appears at face value that the requested records would not reveal, for example, that Jane Doe searched for information on local dog groomers.

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