DoJ demands user search records from Google
What is it with these Executive branch bullies?
From Good Morning Silicon Valley, John Paczkowski writes this:
They're bringing a (possibly) unConstitutional lawsuit against Google to get them to cough up information "essential to DoJ's upcoming defense" of a law that might, in and of itself, be unconstitutional to begin with?The Department of Justice on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google to comply with a subpoena issued last year for search records stored in its databases.
The DOJ argues that the information it has requested, which includes one million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from a one-week period, is essential to its upcoming defense of the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act. Google has so far refused to comply with the subpoena, saying the release of such information would violate the privacy of its users. "Google is not a party to this lawsuit, and the demand for the information is overreaching,'' Nicole Wong, an associate general counsel for Google, told The Mercury News. "[We plan to fight the government's effort] "vigorously.''
(HT to Xeni)
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