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Google Pushes To Open Public Records

Posted by kdawson on from the whole-lotta-redacting-going-on dept.

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. So when... by Short+Circuit · · Score: 5, Funny

    So when are Google, the Library of Congress and the CIA going to combine and be simply known as the CIC?

    (Literary reference. Hope I didn't get first post.)

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  2. Privacy by NaCh0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If privacy advocates are concerned about public records becoming more easily accessible, they should get laws passed that limit the collection of such data by the government. It seems like Google gets the criticism because their search engine is too good at doing what it is designed to do.

  3. Re:Porn by Hack'n'Slash · · Score: 5, Funny

    LINKS PLEASE!!!!