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January 19, 2006

Feds Want To See Google Searches.

Apparently, they want to see how many times I looked up "barely legal plushie hentai" this week (Seventeen times, if you have to ask. Hint: always use quotes in your Google searches).

From the A.P.:

The government wants a list all requests entered into Google's search engine during an unspecified single week — a breakdown that could conceivably span tens of millions of queries. In addition, it seeks 1 million randomly selected Web addresses from various Google databases.

In court papers that the San Jose Mercury News reported on after seeing them Wednesday, the Bush administration depicts the information as vital in its effort to restore online child protection laws that have been struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Ahhh, the children. Always about the children. I'd like to know why no one ever wants to protect my *Dad* from viewing online pornography-- I assure you, this prospect is far more frightening to me than Junior surfing for Jenna Jameson photos.
"Search engines now play such an important part in our daily lives that many people probably contact Google more often than they do their own mother," said Thomas Burke, a San Francisco attorney who has handled several prominent cases involving privacy issues.
Well, let's be honest: my mother couldn't tell me where I could find the Colin Farrell sex tape, let alone the Tom Sizemore sex tape. Now, if there had ever been an Engelbert Humperdinck sex tape, dear departed Mom would have been all over that like Michael Moore on Old Country Buffett.

Anyway, this doesn't really rub me all that badly. I mean, it's not like Uncle Sam will discover my personal searching habits from this information. Google could, of course, be at risk for losing some of its trade secrets, but even that argument is rather specious. Personally, if one wants to complain about the lack of privacy in America, I'd look at the United States government long after I looked at other, worse, candidates: credit bureaus, insurance companies, and the Scientologists.

Okay, I made that last one up. Just wanted to see if everyone was still awake here.


posted by Dave From Garfield Ridge at 10:10 PM
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What, do you hate family values or something?

Posted by: scarshapedstar on January 19, 2006 10:23 PM

I thought it had more to do with child porn and online predators of children. No privacy interest in that stuff.

Posted by: shawn on January 19, 2006 10:27 PM

Our lawyers will be at your house tonight.
Stay put.

Posted by: Tom Cruise on January 19, 2006 10:32 PM

If only Jenna Jameson pics were all we had to worry about kids seeing. I wouldn't even mind THAT. Geeze!

Posted by: Rightwingsparkle on January 19, 2006 10:59 PM

With spyware and hackers etc. abounding, it's gotta be getting tougher all the time to prove from computer records who actually did the surfing.

Has the "it was a virus, your honor, not I, that looked down the girl's blouse" defence been tried yet?

Posted by: ras on January 19, 2006 11:28 PM

Actually, the government here is looking at anonymous data only--no one is identified.

I'm not sure exactly what they are after, but I suspect Google is hiding something. They've probably been steering people toward "Farm Sluts Dot Com" or some such site.

Posted by: Red Jode on January 19, 2006 11:40 PM

Huh?......Wha?.....(wipes drool off corner of mouth.....)

Posted by: CraigC on January 20, 2006 12:50 AM

I got the impression that this was directed more at USERS of kiddie porn and not at kids themselves.

Posted by: rabidfox on January 20, 2006 08:42 AM

Since hearing about this, I've started searching Google with long strings of obscenities from "The Aristocrats" jokes. I wanna give the Gummint some good search strings to look through.

Posted by: Andy on January 20, 2006 08:50 AM
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