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DOJ beats google in spite war; (at least, that's what I think it is.)
Topic Started: Mar 21 2006, 08:22 AM (82 Views)
Aqua Letifer
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http://multichannelmerchant.com/searchline...-06-Google-DOJ/

Okay, so to sum up:

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A U.S. federal judge says he will probably give the Department of Justice some of the search data it has asked for from Google, now that government attorneys have greatly reduced the scope of their request.

The cut-down data sweep-- in which the government asked for only 50,000 Web addresses and 5,000 search terms, rather the million of each it was expected to ask for—allowed both sides to announce an apparent win in the case, particularly since the judge may only grant part of the request in his final decision.


So the question is:

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On the other hand, what purpose would such a relatively small sample accomplish? When asked by Judge Ware if the DOJ had not already received enough data from other search engines to support its porn-law case, McElvain admitted that it probably had but added that “the study would be improved with Google’s data.”


Not only that, but there's the obvious question of:

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User privacy is also an issue, Gidari told Ware, adding that release of the data could expose certain content about users’ finances, Social Security numbers and sexual preferences.




I don't get it; receiving data that's so limited, will this really do any good for the DOJ? Or are they just trying to get something from Google to look like they "won"?
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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