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Published on ZDNet News: January 20, 2006, 10:00 AM PT
Federal prosecutors defending a controversial
Published on ZDNet News: January 20, 2006, 10:00 AM PT
Federal prosecutors defending a controversial
Internet pornography law are trying to force Google to hand over
millions of search records--a request that the search giant is rejecting.
The Bush administration asked a federal judge to force Google to comply with a subpoena for the information, which would reveal the search terms of a broad swath of the search engine's visitors. Prosecutors are requesting a 'random sampling' of 1 million Internet addresses accessible through Google's popular search engine, and a random sampling of 1 million search queries submitted to Google over a one-week period.
The Bush administration asked a federal judge to force Google to comply with a subpoena for the information, which would reveal the search terms of a broad swath of the search engine's visitors. Prosecutors are requesting a 'random sampling' of 1 million Internet addresses accessible through Google's popular search engine, and a random sampling of 1 million search queries submitted to Google over a one-week period.
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