from yahoo news: SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is rebuffing the Bush administration's demand for a peek at what millions of people have been looking up on the Internet's leading search engine — a request that underscores the potential for online databases to become tools for government surveillance.
Mountain View-based Google has refused to comply with a White House subpoena first issued last summer, prompting U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales this week to ask a federal judge in San Jose for an order to hand over the requested records.
The government wants a list all requests entered into Google's search engine during an unspecified single week — a breakdown that could conceivably span tens of millions of queries. In addition, it seeks 1 million randomly selected Web addresses from various Google databases.
In court papers that the San Jose Mercury News reported on after seeing them Wednesday, the Bush administration depicts the information as vital in its effort to restore online child protection laws that have been struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), which runs the Internet's second-most used search engine behind Google, confirmed Thursday that it had complied with a similar government subpoena.
HOW DOES THE INTERNET ACTUALLY WORK? BECAUSE I BELIEVE IT IS BEST TO TRY NOT TO SUPPORT WHAT I AM AGAINST, AND I HAVE ALWAYS USED YAHOO OVER GOOGLE, I THINK I NEED TO SWITCH NOW (THOUGH SWITCHING MAIL ACCOUNTS IS DIFFICULT). DOES YAHOO MAKE MONEY OFF OF ME SOMEHOW? I DONT PAY ANYTHING FOR MY EMAIL ACCOUNT, AND NONE OF THEIR ADS HAVE EVER CAUGHT MY ATTENTION, BUT ALL THE SAME...AND ALSO, I DONT LIKE THE THOUGHT OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION DIGGING THROUGH MY SEARCHES TO OVER RULE THE SUPREME COURT, WHETHER I AGREE WITH THEIR RULING OR NOT!
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