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Google Subpoenaed for Search History
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Originally Posted by San Jose Mercury News 1/19/06
Google subpoena
THE ISSUE: The Bush administration wants Google to turn over material from its databases to determine how often pornography shows up in online searches.
WHAT GOOGLE SAYS: It opposes releasing the information, saying it would violate users' privacy and reveal trade secrets.
WHAT'S AT STAKE: Privacy advocates are concerned that the vast amount of information Google and other search engines know about their users could be thrown open to anyone with a court order.
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Okay, this is over the top. Does anyone have confirmation? I'm doing chicken-blinks at my monitor. Do we really have people on staff wasting our money for this kind of parochial tire-spinning?
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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