The government confirms it: Yahoo, AOL, and MSN were also asked to supply search records information, and all complied. Google (rightly so) told the Feds to get bent.
This administration needs to go. Really now: Make up your own porn search terms. Don't ask a private organization to get involved in your judicial spats over silly and unproductive (and overturned!) laws.
I'll not be trusting Yahoo, AOL or MSN much. (Not that I did before, but still...) They gave everyone up without hesitation. The correct thing to do was refuse. They failed to do this correct thing, and it shows where they place their users and privacy in the grand scheme of things.
(Note: This is all my personal opinion, not authorized by anyone at work, blah blah blah.)
AOL's apparently claiming now that they didn't give it up to the Feds. Which either means that they're lying, or the gov't is in some weaselly "Everyone else is doing it" gambit... I'm not sure which would surprise me less.
Posted by Tracy at January 20, 2006 3:37 PMYeah, I don't know. I haven't heard anything from work, and even if they wanted to tell me I wouldn't want to know. Really.
All I know is that Google has the cajones to stand up to absurdity, such as our federal government, and few others do. How many do, I can't say. But the clear thinkers are in Mtn View, in my personal opinion.
Posted by wee at January 21, 2006 2:34 AM