January 20, 2006 1:00 AM PST
Privacy experts condemn Google subpoena
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Bill Gates and other executives at Microsoft have had all of their email captured by legal teams for various law suits at one time or another. Bill Gates once said "We live the observed life". Translation...assume that everything you say, write, or do will be reviewed by a team of lawyers...with the worst of intentions.
I wrote a blog on the subject of privacy, the limits of presidential power, and how judge Alito's supreme court nomination might effect decisions on this subject. You can read the whole thing here http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/01/living_the_obse.html
While their request is not about an attempt to identify individuals who are breaking the law online it is possible the evidence could be later used against Google.
Google may be saying they are defending the privacy of it's users, but in the larger scheme of things they need to protect themselves from any possible liability. If Google takes the 5th amendment stand on this, they should be able to keep the information out of the Governments hands. The company is not being targeted for wrong doing, there for they have a certain right to not provide incriminating evidence against themselves in this case.
-Sinclair Lewis et. al.
The guise this bill uses is to protect children, and at the same time can be a loaded weapon. If parents stand up and take control, talk to their kids and acctually be a parent, there is no need for this kind of insane violation of rights, thus negating the assumption of power that the government has no right to as outlined in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Basically, the "Dubya-ment" needs to pack up their marbles and go home, leave me to do my parenting, and don't use me or my kids as an excuse.
Send-out date : March 1, 2006
Recipients :
John Ashcroft, Attorney General
Jay B. Stephens, Associate Attorney General
Larry D. Thompson, Deputy Attorney General
The Bush administration has asked a federal judge in San Jose, California, to force Google to comply with a subpoena for information which would reveal the search terms of a broad swath of the search engine's visitors.
We the undersigned believe this is a violation of privacy, oversteps the boundarys of the US Goverment's constitutional authority, and applaud Google's resistance to this further erosion of liberty in America.
Send-out date : March 1, 2006
Recipients :
John Ashcroft, Attorney General
Jay B. Stephens, Associate Attorney General
Larry D. Thompson, Deputy Attorney General
The Bush administration has asked a federal judge in San Jose, California, to force Google to comply with a subpoena for information which would reveal the search terms of a broad swath of the search engine's visitors.
We the undersigned believe this is a violation of privacy, oversteps the boundarys of the US Goverment's constitutional authority, and applaud Google's resistance to this further erosion of liberty in America.