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Google Pushes To Open Public Records

AlHunt sends us an AP story on Google's push to help states open up their data to online searchers. Google is going about this in an evenhanded way, according to the story, and the results of its labors — initially in Arizona, California, Utah, and Virginia — will be available to all search engines, not just theirs. The move is being hailed by groups such as OpenTheGovernment.org, but the Electronic Privacy Information Center expressed concerns, given what they call Google's "checkered past" with regard to privacy on the Internet.

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  1. Re:Sweet! by QuantumG · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    heh, I was playing Civ 4 yesterday.

    First game: lost in record time.
    Second game: lost after excrutiating battle.
    Third game: no war at all, won with space victory.

    Uninstalled.

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  2. ORLY? by HomelessInLaJolla · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    While Google pushes to open up public records, they neglect to include the X-Originating-IP, or any information which would help e-mail recipients determine where e-mail came from, on e-mail from Gmail. All Gmail e-mail appears to originate from a 10. IP address from within the depths of Google.

    I guess it's just a matter of which set of principles is best suited to cover their , and which set of principles is best suited to generate good press, and which set of principles is best suited to please shareholders, and which set of principles is best suited to serve their business interests. The only dissappointment is that, for the scientific technologist, none of these principles serves to preserve truth and accuracy. The pie is carefully portioned out for only one purpose.

    PROFIT.

    I'm not opposed to profit. I'm opposed to fraud.

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    1. Re:ORLY? by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      What the fuck are you on about exactly?

      Way to rant.

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    2. Re:ORLY? by Max+Littlemore · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Can U spell hypocracy?

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  3. What about this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Would something like this be available for the public?
    09
    F9
    11
    02
    9D
    74
    E3
    5B
    D8
    41
    56
    C5
    63
    56
    88
    C0

  4. Re:Googles "checkered past"? What mine? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Only n00bz and other idiots use Google. Just ClustyFuck it.

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  5. trrolkore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic