Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles In Brazil

Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf, points to a Yahoo! story which begins "Google on Wednesday handed over data stored by suspected pedophiles on its Orkut social networking site to Brazilian authorities, ceding to pressure to lift its confidentiality duty to its users, officials said."

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Won't someone think of the children!?!? - NT

[street struttin']

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Re:Stop it

[Enderandrew]

Complying a judge's order to hand over data on pedophiles does not compare to Nazi-era concentration camps.

You did use an extremely ridiculous example.

There is a high profile local murder case in the news these days about a child molester who raped his two daughters repeatedly. While he was on bail for the first charges, he then molested and killed another girl.

The investigation took YEARS for the murder, because even though he was a convicted felon (he was convicted on the earlier charges) people were lining up to protect his civil rights, and his right to privacy.

There was a big battle on whether or not the new murder trial was even allowed to mention whether or not he had been convicted previously of molestation.

Thankfully, the resolution however was that there was sufficient grounds to investigate him, search his belongings (find evidence), bring up old testimony, etc.

Privacy was trumped in the name of going after a pedophile, and I'd say justice was served. If we couldn't search anyone at any time (privacy trumping all, as many people so foolishly and fanatically suggesting here) we'd never be able to enforce any laws (or damn near it).

Privacy should be upheld WITHIN REASON.