he US justice department private. If they wish to go about
has recently asked the big catching criminals that's fine,
four SE's (Google, Msn, but to put my private information
Yahoo, Aol) to hand over search under the microscope to do so is
information to defend a just not on...... Then of course
controversial Internet there is the potential for misuse
pornography law. of such information also.
Federal prosecutors have asked Every four years in Australia the
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and government conducts a national
America Online to turn over two survey for demographic purposes
types of data: logs showing of which I have no problem.
search terms used by people, and However if any government were to
a list of Web sites indexed by have access to your online search
the companies' search engines. To logs/information over a defined
date Google has refused and is space of time they would in many
now going to court cases have a complete eyes view
of not only your private life but
The bigger implications in such many of your business interests.
are a case is... what access does
the government have to our Nothing would be sacred, the
current online searches, what books you read, the TV you watch,
access should they have (if any) your political views and the list
and what does this mean for our just gets bigger.
privacy now and in the future.
Let me state that if the
The problem I see with granting government wishes for search logs
access of search engines logs to of unlawful behavior, such as
government departments is that certain keywords and or websites,
the information is totally this I don't mind. However to ask
for search logs of all users over behalf of its clients who use
a complete, day, week or month is their service (us) have done the
something very different! right thing to not just hand over
such information. It is
If this erosion of privacy were diffidently an intrusion of
to start, where would it end? privacy and should go no further.
I certainly think Google, on
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