[WSIS CS-Plenary] US Obtains Internet Users' Search Records

[Rui Correia]

First internet governance, then phone tapping now this. What next? Next will
be their bully tactics to make it conditional to a whole range of activities
involving other states, with insistences that the other side to as they do -
whether in veiled threat over trade issues; political horse-trading in the
name of the fight against terrorism or just plain American style "send in
Condi and the marines!!!! 

Anybody been doing internet searches on "Iranian nuclear programme"
lately??? Better stick to "apple pie and patriot act motherhood".

US Obtains Internet Users' Search Records
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012006D.shtml
Federal investigators have obtained potentially billions of Internet search
requests made by users of major websites run by Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp.
and America Online Inc., raising concerns about how the massive data trove
will be used.

Feds After Google Data
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011906R.shtml
In court papers filed in US District Court in San Jose, Justice Department
lawyers revealed that Google has refused to comply with a subpoena issued
last year for records, which include a request for one million random web
addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period.

Rui

 

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