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| Last Edited | COSDem Jan 19, 2006 03:53pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, January 19, 2006 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Bush Administration has demanded that Google Inc provide details on what its users have been looking for through its popular search engine.
Google has refused to comply with the subpoena, issued last year, for a broad range of material from its databases, including a request for 1 million random web addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period, according to lawyers for the US Justice Department in papers filed yesterday in a San Jose court.
Privacy advocates have been increasingly scrutinising Google’s practices as the company expands its offerings to include email, driving directions, photo-sharing, instant messaging and Web journals.
Although Google pledges to protect personal information, the company’s privacy policy says it complies with legal and government requests. Google also has no stated guidelines on how long it keeps data, leading critics to warn that retention is potentially forever given cheap storage costs. |
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