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2006-03-14

Google Wins a Stay on Privacy Rights

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"Taking responsibility for one's actions is all part of the growing up process."
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Google Wins a Stay on Privacy Rights

Google took on the Government in its fight to protect the privacy of its millions of users. Did it? Whether or not it really protected your privacy, it did maintain a standard that protected its investors.

It looks like the Judge will hand down a decision that will affect perhaps some 50,000 google records. In comparison to the millions the Judge could have ordered turned over, that is a mere drop in the bucket. The actual number of records and the accepted method of information release is yet to be confirmed in respect to the Judge's official determination.

Now what about those records MSN, AOL and YAHOO turned over?

From the way I see it, Google will probably be handing over garbled records whose contents will point to kiddy porn and perhaps a bit more of a mix. It will be hard for the agency to tie them back to any one particular user.

Will it? Black hat hackers gain more private information in the snap of your fingers with less to work on. What makes you think any user mentioned in any way on any of the Search Engines is safe from actions resulting from recorded keystrokes?

Even more to the point, the Government and other like agencies have never hesitated in hiring the services of convicted black hatters in the past. Those kids that hack into protected data bases and cause such an uproar are the exact same kids that will kick butt on those records the Governnment either has in their hands now or will soon be receiving under court order.

Even more so, with the records AOL, MSN and YAHOO have turned over, there will be the overlap of user information that will assuredly lead to personal identification of the records turned over by Google under court order.

If you were sweating heavily over your private use of the search engines and the Internet tiltilating offers, then get prepared to do a little more. Maybe we can offer up a cheer of it looks good on you if this sick type of perversion takes a solid kick in the pocket book as well as hopefully a little public release of a few names.

Almost anything is worth it to protect the eyes and physical rights of children from this sickness. If only we could count on our Governments to stick to the value of cleaning up this sort of perversion. But the fact remains that other illegal activities will surface as a result of their investigations.

The world wide web is about to come of age. There is a fine line between probity and censorship. This fine line is about to make its way onto the net in such as way as to change its use forever. The worse form of policing is about to be set in stone. Look out, Big Brother may have his eye on you.

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