The Approaching COPA Battle
An AP newswire article by MaryClaire Dale, via The Washington Post, reports that:
The Justice Department is nonetheless gearing up to defend the law [Child Online Protection Act] at a trial set for October in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.More here.
The case spawned a high-profile debate last month when Google Inc. refused a government subpoena for documents the government sought as it develops its strategy.
Justice lawyers subpoenaed several leading search engines for information, apparently to study what information people seek _ and find _ online. They asked Google for 1 million sample queries and 1 million Web addresses in Google's database, according to court documents.
Google is fighting the subpoena, although primarily citing trade secrets, not privacy issues. Yahoo! and others are cooperating, saying the information they provided does not identify individual users.
posted by Fergie @ 3/10/2006 10:01:00 AM
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