Judge May Force Google to Submit to Feds

illeism writes "News.com is reporting that a California judge may force Google to give the feds at least some of the information it wanted. The feds may get some of Google's index of sites but none of the user search terms. From the article, the judge said he was 'reluctant to give the Justice Department everything it wanted because of the "perception by the public that this is subject to government scrutiny" when they type search terms into Google.com.'"

Comments

Time to Google Bomb them

[WillAffleckUW]

Just imagine what would happen if people decided to rebel, and started typing in useful search phrases over and over, while hosting web pages which had those keywords.

It's like a thousand al-Qaedas all at once.

That's how you deal with an intrusive government in Soviet America.

From forum

[Viraptor]

Probably someone from Justice Department asked something on a web forum and got standard "STFW" with google link.
Some people should just learn to use google, not ask feds to force informations out of it, really... ;)

Time to move servers again...

[Anonymous Coward]

No problem, Google can just move their servers to China to keep them safe from a government that thinks it needs to track every citizens activity.

Re:Blade:Trinity

[hey!]

Snipes gave the Feds a stirring speech about the Fourth Amendment, and convincingly demonstrated that under the Strict Construction theory they lacked the constitutional authority to be conducting this search anyway.

Half the Feds hung their heads in shame and chagrin and went home. The others stayed for the practical demonstration of Second Amendment rights.

You may be sadly deluded

[LunaticTippy]

All I can say is Never check your parents browser history.

Re:Reluctance?

[BewireNomali]

more for the children bullshit?

I don't understand. You're opposed to making it harder for kids to find porn online?

the truth is..

[dartarrow]

...they want to see how many ppl know about their miserable failure.

Re:Of course he's concerned with the *perception*.

[Petrushka]

And they even have a Firefox searchbar plugin. Great, thanks for that!

Re:Yeah

[IPA]

Google's PigeonRanking is going to be totally screwed when the bird flu gets here.

Re:Why should the government get free data?

[Buran]

They can't afford it. They blew the money on the stupid war that no one wants.

Re:How about zero search queries?

[Zarel]

Erm... Eheh... I seem to have thought of the wrong one... I meant the one about privacy... Which would be the 5th one... No, the 34th... No, the -12th...

Oh, you know what I meant! ;)

And, no, I don't get paid for my legal brainery. Which is quite fortunate.