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Forbes: Why Google Refused To Give Up Its User's Search Data
Google's refusal to cooperate with the U.S. government's request for user search data is probably motivated more by the desire to protect itself than to protect user privacy, according to a Forbes.com report. However, the result still ends up protecting privacy.
The government is seeking a week's worth of Internet search queries from a list of 1 million random Web addresses in an attempt to battle Internet porn and to help create a Child Online Protection Act. America Online, Yahoo! and Microsoft have all agreed to hand over the data, which they have assured their customers contains no personally identifiable information, but Google has refused, citing user privacy and the danger of revealing "trade secrets" to its competitors.
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posted by Unknown @ Wednesday, January 25, 2006,
