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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."
Um, it wasn't a subpoena, it was a request. And if companies are just GIVING away personal information, something is seriously wrong.
Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
I realize that complete ignorance is a Slashdot hallmark, but the majority of you really need to educate yourselves on this matter.
The information given out by the other companies, and requested from Google, is completely divorced from any personally identifying data.
The only privacy issue in this whole thing is the privacy of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and the other corproration asked for this data. Since Slashdot readers generally haven't minded the government sticking their noses into other companies' private business in the past, I doubt they'd be so up in arms if they really understood whose privacy was at stake here.
It's going to be interesting -- Can Google outsmart the government like Microsoft did, or will the bottomless goverment eventually destroy Google and take over all the logs, or even operate Google as a govermental service?
Virtual Betting on Facebook for non-geeks.
I agree completely. It is absurd to think that there should be restrictions on the government’s power. There is no reason whatsoever that the government should not just be able to demand information and property from persons or businesses. Yes, support the President and all that he and his Administration and appointies choose to do without any question or oversight!
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And by your reasoning how big are MS's?
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Well if you'd kindly pull them out of your mouth, we'll measure them.
yeah and what about 17 year olds like myself? I'd like to have more options than 30 year olds screwing. Im an ephebophile, not a pedophile.
Fascism is the greatest political ideology ever conceived. Sorry.
> Yet, at the same time, the 16 year old (hell, 14 year old) is old enough and mature enough to be tried as an adult and sentenced as an adult.
Yeah, but this is porn. I mean... boobs!
Won't someone please think of the children?
Now excuse me while I go have an affair with a seventeen-year-old.
(Oh sorry... politicians being hypocritical? Never! )
My other car is first.
> Well, for one thing, the Clinton Administration shut down two attempts by Arab terrorists to launch an attack on US soil.
And we can assume a few have been thwarted since 9/11. But we do know Sudan offered Clinton Bin Laden's head on a platter and he said "No thanks."
Democrat delenda est
Pick your poison!
1. Let the government do it's job to stifle terrorist activities (we have yet to have car bombings in this country)
2. Say "fuck-it" and let dirty-bombs and kamikaze whackos ram 777s into buildings. I mean, it's an "acceptable" act of nature. You know the price of being part of western civilization.
You cannot have it both ways.
Personally, I would rather have a legal terrorist-license-to-kill. I'll just pack my gun and slug the first rag-head that wishes to cause trouble. Problem solved.
Life is not for the lazy.