Re: [ga] Judge to Rule Soon in Google Case

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Companies should resist anytime the government wants access to user's
private information. If Google was doing it for that noble purpose, it was
be phenominal. However I suspect that is not their only motive.

Chris McElroy
http://www.articlecontentprovider.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "General Assembly of the DNSO" <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "icann board address" <icann-board@xxxxxxxxx>; "vinton g. cerf"
<vint@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 1:27 AM
Subject: [ga] Judge to Rule Soon in Google Case


> All former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,
>
> Is vint and google harboring or kiddy porn customers, or is this a odd
> manner of a real interest in consumer privacy?
>
> 15/14/10 March 2006)
> US District Judge James Ware says he is likely to order Google to
> provide the US Justice Department with at least some of the data it has
> requested. Google initially refused to provide the Justice Department
> with the data it requested, claiming it would violate customer privacy
> and could potentially expose the company's trade secrets.  The
> government's initial request was for one million random web site
> addresses and one week's work of query terms.  The request has been
> scaled back to 50,000 web sites and 5,000 terms, with the Justice
> Department examining just twenty percent of those.  The government has
> also agreed to compensate Google for eight days of programmers' time.
> AOL, Yahoo and MSN have complied with the government's request, which
> is being made in an effort to support its contention that filtering
> software is not effective in protecting children from inappropriate
> Internet content. The government is trying to defend the Child Online
> Protection Act (1998), which was blocked by the Supreme Court.
>
> see:  http://www.silicon.com/0,39024831,39157220,00.htm
>
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2006-03-14-google-judge_x.htm
>
>  http://news.com.com/2102-1030_3-6048488.html?tag=st.util.print
>  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4804182.stm
>
> Regards,
>
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