DoJ search requests: Yahoo, AOL, MSN said "Yes"

d2viant writes "Elaborating on a previous article on Slashdot, it appears that the search engines which complied for Department of Justice requests for logs were apparently AOL, MSN, and Yahoo. According to the article, Justice is not requesting this data in the course of a criminal investigation, but in order to defend its argument that the Child Online Protection Act is constitutionally sound."

Comments

Re:Sore Thumb -- Google Sued!

[dantheman82]

From the article you linked: "Google objected to the government's subpoena, saying it would reveal trade secrets by providing the data and disclose personally identifiable information about its users. In response, the government said it would keep the data secret and that the request wasn't for personal information."

Google is really starting to tick me off. Please see my previous post and its responses documenting my personal case (and apparently others) where my searches when logged into my Google account and the personalized homepage have been logged despite the fact that I NEVER OPTED IN! Once I found a way to opt out, I did promptly, but I never was given notice of this fact when I signed up and it appears they changed their privacy policy without me knowing it. Yeah, sure, I should check the link but seriously, that is responsible (or even evil).

And now, Google is saying "it would reveal trade secrets by providing the data and disclose personally identifiable information about its users." Yeah, you mean users like me who NEVER WANTED MY HISTORY RECORDED! Perhaps spying on my Internet habits qualifies as trade secrets. I'm seriously thinking of never again logging into Google account online again because they have LOST MY TRUST. Sorry...someone has to say this.

Re:Do any Americans actually feel safer?

[bmetzler]

Or, we might have been talking about the trial of Osama bin'Laden at the World Court at Den Haag for crimes against humanity. Or both.

Yeah, too bad Clinton let OBL go, isn't it? If he would have prosecuted OBL when he was given the opportunity we wouldn't be dealing with this now, would we? OBL would have been in jail and harmless. But no, Clinton decided that it was better to let OBL go and let the next president deal with OBL. And as a result of that, a mere 8 months after Clinton left office we lost 3000 *innocent* American lives.

We could have been talking about a trial now if Clinton would have only taken OBL when he was given the opportunity. Now we've lost over 5000 lives and counting because Clinton failed and let OBL go. We can only thank those proud Americans who voted for President Bush that we have not had 5 more years of failed policies like Clinton, Gores, and Kerrys.

Brent

This ballyhoo over porn is just a decoy anyway

[craXORjack]

This is just an attempt to divert the public's attention from Bush's violations of the constitutional framework by refusing to obey the laws that Congress has passed and refusing to allow executive oversight of his actions by the judicial branch. If we become distracted by one of Rove's tricks now then we will be the last generation to have lived in the American republic the way it was originally conceived, with three branches checking and balancing the power of the other two.

Doin your Googling for ya......

[jmorris42]

> Suuuurrre they did. Why don't you submit a link from a credible source, numbnuts.

Sorry, I forgot my opponents are all idiots and can't handle high tech like Google. But I'm here trying to help ya out so..

Credible.. How about the WaPo?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac3/ContentServer?pa gename=article&articleid=A61251-2001Oct2&node=nati on/specials/attacked/archive

Headline: U.S. Was Foiled Multiple Times in Efforts To Capture Bin Laden or Have Him Killed

Slight;y less cannonical for you lefties, but mainstream media nonetheless, I give you The Guardian:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story /0,6903,560624,00.html

Headline: Resentful west spurned Sudan's key terror files

A little more bloggish, but Horowitz runs a fairly reputable operation, he ain't some idiot in his pajamas

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.a sp?ID=9721

Headline: How Clinton Kept Bin Laden Free

FROG AND BOILING WATER

[lowell]

Our LEADERS ARE A BUNCH OF NAZI BASTARDS. How come you people dont get it. You know the story about throwing a frog into boiling and it hops out. But if you put the frog in cool water and crank the temp up slowly you will kill it. Well folks your all in the kettle and its getting hot in here.

Re:Do any Americans actually feel safer?

[bmetzler]

Clinton had the opportunity to *assassinate* Osama Bin Laden not capture him.

[If] Bush was truly the "security" President instead of the "Safety Dance" President, bin'Laden would be dead and his head rotting on a pike somewhere in Afghanistan.

I don't know, that sounds a lot like assissination to me. I think the only person lost here is you. My point is, of course, that Clinton had the opportunity to do something, anything really, with OBL, and chose to do nothing. We can only thank ourselves that President Bush won the election in 2000 and chose to do something about OBL after 9/11, which was the last straw.

-Brent