Google Brazil Pressured to Give Up Names

Kordau writes "Google Brazil is under pressure to release user info from Orkut, relating to a child porn investigation by the Brazilian government. Google Brazil maintains that the info officials want is held on US servers and if they want the info, they should talk to Google USA."

Comments

Re:If the Brazilian government kicks Google out ..

[m0rph3us0]

You'd give up the information age to stop soemone from spanking their kid?

You sir are a moron.

Also, how would Google giving up the information stop child abuse? If it is for a criminal investigation then the abuse has already occured. Thus, Google giving up the information in no way would reduce child abuse.

In my opinion whenever a anyone makes the gov't cross their Is and dot their Ts is a good thing. We don't know that the charges are legit or anything else about the case. That is the point of the justice system. What Brazil needs to do is supeona Google USA, and present a compelling case for giving up the information. The gov't simply asserting something is true does not make it so.

The world isn't black and white, it's full of shades of gray.

Those who would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin

Karma unwhoring

[UbuntuDupe]

What do Brazilians search for anyway? I bet they see a lot of these:

"don't have land want to squat"
"anti-squatting lawyer"
"immigrate to Chile"
"learn english quick" (obviously I'm translating their search terms)
"hedge against inflation"
"do government bonds default?"
"how to clearcut amazon"

Re:Karma unwhoring

[UbuntuDupe]

There is history of hiperinflation in all world.

Not in *recent memory* such that someone would enter it into a search engine.

There is desire to learn english by amost anyone who don't speak english as the first language.

Okay, so that point of mine was fair.

And landless workers is another problem where most of the landless people aren't workers.

I don't understand. The difference between landless people in Brazil and landless people in richer countries is that in Brazil, it means you will live in poverty. That's why it's such an important issue there.

Also squatting most of the time is organized by political organizations.

By political organizations ... *of landless workers*.

Have you ever been in Brazil ? Have you ever been to south america ? ...

I shouldn't criticize a country until I've been there? So, I guess you had nothing negative to say about China or the Soviet Union?

Re:Do you have _any_ evidence of that?

[EatHam]

You also don't have constitutionally guaranteed privacy.