SkinInsite Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Feds after Google data RECORDS SOUGHT IN U.S. QUEST TO REVIVE PORN LAW By Howard Mintz Mercury News The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases. The move is part of a government effort to revive an Internet child protection law struck down two years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court. The law was meant to punish online pornography sites that make their content accessible to minors. The government contends it needs the Google data to determine how often pornography shows up in online searches. In court papers filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Justice Department lawyers revealed that Google has refused to comply with a subpoena issued last year for the records, which include a request for 1 million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period. The Mountain View-based search and advertising giant opposes releasing the information on a variety of grounds, saying it would violate the privacy rights of its users and reveal company trade secrets, according to court documents. Nicole Wong, an associate general counsel for Google, said the company will fight the government's effort ``vigorously.'' ``Google is not a party to this lawsuit, and the demand for the information is overreaching,'' Wong said. click for the rest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gchwood Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 The Government should protect our children (obliviously Judges who here child molestation cases don't), personally I think that there should be search engines specifically for porn, and eliminate it from the normal engines. you know google.com and then googleporn.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Not surprised Google would fight this. If word got out that the government was getting their search information they could take a serious hit. If you don't want your kids to get into trouble on-line you need to take steps at home to prevent it. Do NOT let them have a computer in their rooms. Use the parental control software that you most likely already have. Tell your kids point blank that you will look through the history on the machine among other things. Talk to your kids friends parents to make sure they are doing the same thing. I also agree that something should be done about porn on the internet. It's too easy to access sometimes popping up accidentally. What exactly to do about it? Not an easy answer. Restricting adults sites to ".sex" or ".xxx" addresses seemed to hold some promise, at least in theory. Anyone know what happened with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heyholetsgogrant Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Not surprised Google would fight this. If word got out that the government was getting their search information they could take a serious hit. If you don't want your kids to get into trouble on-line you need to take steps at home to prevent it. Do NOT let them have a computer in their rooms. Use the parental control software that you most likely already have. Tell your kids point blank that you will look through the history on the machine among other things. Talk to your kids friends parents to make sure they are doing the same thing. I also agree that something should be done about porn on the internet. It's too easy to access sometimes popping up accidentally. What exactly to do about it? Not an easy answer. Restricting adults sites to ".sex" or ".xxx" addresses seemed to hold some promise, at least in theory. Anyone know what happened with that? :applause: :notworthy ...I agree...I guess we should create a department of homeland Parenthood :laugh:....this is just the Bush administration to bully its way to do whatever it wants and to ban questionable material...this is only the first step. -Grant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistymjohnson Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Our children are very smart these days, and taught how to move around a computer starting in Kindergarten. MOST parents are not nearly as computer literate as their children. Thank God, I am! I have a keylogger on my computer for that VERY reason. The children from the church utilize my computer quite frequently for school reports and the likes. They are never unsupervised while using it either. However, it takes VERY little time for them to be a witness to or engage in inapropriate content. I caught three of my girls (from the church) in sexual conversation using my keylogger that they had no idea existed on my computer. I was not able to catch them any other way, because they knew how to clear parts of the history (which I am not even sure how to do)... They covered their tracks sooooooo well! But my keylogger caught them, and they couldn't do anything but ask for my forgiveness and earn my trust all over again. Yes, I blame the children for their behavior... But I also believe there needs to be stricter policies enforced online regarding adult content being accessible to minors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Our children are very smart these days, and taught how to move around a computer starting in Kindergarten. MOST parents are not nearly as computer literate as their children. Thank God, I am! I have a keylogger on my computer for that VERY reason. The children from the church utilize my computer quite frequently for school reports and the likes. They are never unsupervised while using it either. However, it takes VERY little time for them to be a witness to or engage in inapropriate content. I caught three of my girls (from the church) in sexual conversation using my keylogger that they had no idea existed on my computer. I was not able to catch them any other way, because they knew how to clear parts of the history (which I am not even sure how to do)... They covered their tracks sooooooo well! But my keylogger caught them, and they couldn't do anything but ask for my forgiveness and earn my trust all over again. Yes, I blame the children for their behavior... But I also believe there needs to be stricter policies enforced online regarding adult content being accessible to minors. Have you ever considered a sign on the computer that says "this computer has a keylogging program running at all times" and explaining that they will be caught? You'd be surprised how much less likely someone is to break a rule whenit is made clear to them that they WILL be caught. Either way, good job making sure the kids are safe while on the internet. I agree there need to be stricter policies but just how that will be possible has yet to be worked out. It's going to take time because the nature of the internet does lend itself to easy control. Until then there are a ton of tools available for parents, they just have to be brave enough to learn them and use them. The "we don't know computers" excuse doesn't fly with me. Parents are responsible, so taking a class a basic computer course is not asking too much. It should be considered a safety expense like a car seat for infants and the like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor 36 Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 :applause: :notworthy ...I agree...I guess we should create a department of homeland Parenthood :laugh:....this is just the Bush administration to bully its way to do whatever it wants and to ban questionable material...this is only the first step.-Grant Grant, you obviously have a lot of growing up to do yourself. This isn't about Bush trying to do whatever he wants. Get over your hatred of him and try to see with your young mind and eyes the true, real problem that is facing the youth of this country on the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinzRool Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 personally I think that there should be search engines specifically for porn, and eliminate it from the normal engines. you know google.com and then googleporn.com Google has already implemented that. It's called booble instead of google. However, they have not done a very good job eliminating porn from google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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