Google Sparks Privacy Fight
Thursday, 26. January 2006 - 2:20 pm
Associated
Press — Jan 21 — Should the government be allowed to snoop on
"aggregated query data (not search results)" from Google? "The
Bush administration apparently never asked for any explicitly personal
information….AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo agreed to the requests."
Google refused. " 'My understanding is, we were seeking what
keywords are put in and URLs,' said Justice Department spokesman
Charles Miller. Nothing personal.'' FULL ARTICLE @ SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS.
Mark Brooks- The government is treading a fine line, but I don't have a problem
with them seeing aggregate search results and URL's, as long as they
can't snoop on individuals. I was interviewed on the subject by the Associated Press for this National TV news piece (first person to comment).