Originally posted on March 27, 2006 @ 6:04 am
Google scored a partial victory in its battle to keep its search data out of the hands of the government. Yet that could prove to be just one win in a long-running war.U.S. District Judge James Ware this month ruled that Google must turn over 50,000 URLs from its index to the Department of Justice, but not customers’ search queries as requested by the department. The government hopes to use Google’s data to prove that Internet filters aren’t enough to shield minors from adult material online as part of its case to reinstate the 1998 Child Online Protection Act, which the courts blocked when the ACLU and other groups challenged the law’s constitutionality.
Source: InformationWeek