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Brazil Clashes with Google Over User Data

An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

A day after Brazilian police stopped a fight between rival football fans organized on a popular Google website, authorities clashed with the Internet giant over access to user information to prevent crimes.

Orkut, a Google online community website that allows friends to keep in touch and network, was at the center of the debate between Brazilian and Google officials appearing before the Chamber of Deputies' Human Rights Committee.

Brazilian authorities monitoring online messages for possible crimes want the US company to turn over users' personal information to help stop crimes an abuse like the street battle between the football fans.

Federal Police Commissioner Cristiano Barbosa Sampaio told the committee lawmakers needed to draft legislation allowing authorities to prevent such crimes.

posted by Fergie @ 4/27/2006 02:38:00 PM