Saturday, March 18, 2006
Google - A Victory For Privacy.
A federal judge has DENIED a U.S. government request that Google be ordered to hand over a sample of keywords customers use to search the Internet, but has said that the company produce some Web addresses indexed in its system.
Judge James Ware of the U.S. District for the Northern District of California said the privacy considerations of Google users led him to deny part of the Justice Department's request.
"What his ruling means is that neither the government nor anyone else has carte blanche when demanding data from Internet companies," Nicole Wong, the company's associate general counsel, said in a statement on the Google Web site.
Full comment, Judge tells DoJ "No" on search queries, on the Google Blog.
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Judge James Ware of the U.S. District for the Northern District of California said the privacy considerations of Google users led him to deny part of the Justice Department's request.
"What his ruling means is that neither the government nor anyone else has carte blanche when demanding data from Internet companies," Nicole Wong, the company's associate general counsel, said in a statement on the Google Web site.
Full comment, Judge tells DoJ "No" on search queries, on the Google Blog.
See all recent posts.
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