Google vs. the US Government
"San Francisco - Yesterday (January 18), the Justice Department asked a federal court in San Jose, California to force Google to turn over search records for use as evidence in a case where the government is defending the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act (COPA).
Google has refused to comply with a subpoena for those records, based in part on its concern for its users' privacy.
COPA is a federal law that requires those who publish non-obscene, constitutionally protected sexual material online to take difficult and expensive steps to prevent access by minors, steps that would chill publishers of sexual material as well as the adults who want to access such material anonymously. EFF is one of the plaintiffs in the First Amendment challenge to COPA."
Links:
Online privacy may be illusion Monterey County Herald
Google vs the US Government iAfrica.com
Fishing in cyberspace International Herald Tribune
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