Google yesterday lashed out at the DOJ over their desire to examine Google's users search records. Google is clearly intending for this to become a legal matter so that precedent can be set on protecting users online and search privacy.
In a strongly worded legal brief filed with a federal judge in San Jose, California, the search company accused prosecutors of a "cavalier attitude," saying they were "uninformed" about how search engines work and the importance of protecting Google's confidential information from disclosure.
I have to support Google and so do they. Their entire business model is and will continue to become dependent on users trusting them with more and more of their private information. Google needs to get heavily involved in the debate over user privacy online and this is as good a place as any to start.
They can't just become a snooper on behalf of any government unless someone has specifically and visibly broken a law. But, Google need to be careful that they are consisitent. And as they defend themselves against the US DOJ they also need to be entirely clean and consistent over their China policy. They might even need to review it.
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