Feds order Google to turn over User search data . Google refuses

[CyberGuy]

Google rebuffs feds over access to search data

Bush administration wants details of what users look for

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is rebuffing the Bush administration?s demand for a peek at what millions of people have been looking up on the Internet?s leading search engine ? a request that underscores the potential for online databases to become tools for government surveillance.

Mountain View-based Google has refused to comply with a White House subpoena first issued last summer, prompting U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales this week to ask a federal judge in San Jose for an order to hand over the requested records.

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.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10925344/?GT1=7538

[CyberGuy]

The feds are getting more and more invasive of our privacy. This is just one more example of the feds trying to do something to violate our freedoms.

[cricket]

I guess this doesn't give them enough info:

http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html