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NYT: "Internet Users Thinking Twice Before a Search"
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:46:08 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Steven <stevenstevensteven () yahoo com> Date: January 24, 2006 11:11:01 PM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: NYT: "Internet Users Thinking Twice Before a Search"Excerpt from NYT story: "But the government's move is one of several recent episodes that have caused some people to think twice about the information they type into a search engine, or the opinions they express in an e- mail
message." What was it Thomas Paine said....."When the people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government
fears the people, you have freedom." -------------- NYTimes.com January 25, 2006 Internet Users Thinking Twice Before a Search By KATIE HAFNERKathryn Hanson, a former telecommunications engineer who lives in Oakland,
Calif., was looking at BBC News online last week when she came across anitem about a British politician who had resigned over a reported affair with
a "rent boy." It was the first time Ms. Hanson had seen the term, so, in search of a definition, she typed it into Google. As Ms. Hanson scrolled through the results, she saw that several of the sites were available only to peopleover 18. She suddenly had a frightening thought. Would Google have to inform
the government that she was looking for a rent boy - a young male prostitute?Ms. Hanson, 45, immediately told her boyfriend what she had done. "I told
him I'd Googled 'rent boy,' just in case I got whisked off to some Navy prison in the dead of night," she said. Ms. Hanson's reaction arose from last week's reports that as part of itseffort to uphold an online pornography law, the Justice Department had asked
a federal judge to compel Google to turn over records on millions of its users' search queries. Google is resisting the request, but three of its competitors - Yahoo, MSN and America Online - have turned over similar information. [snip] The full story can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/dgy9k Steven Hertzberg ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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