Comments on: Government vs. Google

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:38:37 +0000

I’m a little late to this party, but Dan, it seems to me that there is a significant difference between having your full medical record — which once had your real name, and has plenty of other individual detail (age, weight, height, medical history) — being mixed in with only 44 others, and having some short text string you typed into Google being mixed in with millions of others, where the only identifying information in the original record is your IP address. Is there really a credible threat that your privacy is going to be invaded by someone someday tracking down which IP address was associated with “nude cat dance” or what have you and then subpoenaing the (most likely erased) IP logs from your ISP to figure out who had that IP address? Or am I missing something?

By: Dutchy

Dutchy — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:40:30 +0000

That’s it! If this train of thought continues in this country, I’m moving! I thought this was America. How much more un-American can we get?

By: Peter T Davis's Small Business Blog

Peter T Davis's Small Business Blog — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:58:05 +0000

Bush Wants to Violate my Fourth Ammendment Rights? And Yours too!

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particul…

By: Peter T Davis's Small Business Blog

Peter T Davis's Small Business Blog — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:58:05 +0000

Bush Wants to Violate my Fourth Ammendment Rights? And Yours too!

By: Concurring Opinions

Concurring Opinions — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:25:41 +0000

Do No Evil and Perhaps Do Some Good: Google, Privacy, and Business Records

I just blogged about the case where the goverment is seeking search query records from Google. I am very pleased that Google is opposing the goverment’s suboena. According to the AP artice: Google — whose motto when it went public…

By: KipEsquire

KipEsquire — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:32:34 +0000

If I'm skimming Northwestern Memorial Hospital correctly, the government wanted the records to defend a law that was being challenged, at that time, as unconstitutional. With the Google subpoena, the law in question (COPA) has already been struck down by the Supreme Court, three years ago. So, if anything, the Northwestern-based argument against the Adminsitration should be even more compelling.