Monday, March 20, 2006

Court orders Google to provide teabagging, pearlnecklaces to DoJ



Jason Schultz says,

Here's a PDF copy of the actual order in the Department of Justice subpoena to Google for porn search results and queries (Gonzales v. Google). It's not every day that you see the phrases "teabagging" and "pearlnecklace" footnoted in a legal opinion -- see page 8, footnote 3. Also page 13, footnote 6 is highly amusing. Anyway, the bottom line is that Google has to turn over 50,000 random URLs from its index but no query strings, so most of the privacy concerns are now moot.
Link to PDF (Thanks, Jason Schultz!), and here's a related NYT report on the ruling by Katie Hafner. Attorney Daniel Solove has an analysis post on his blog, here.

Previously on BoingBoing:
DoJ search requests: Google said no; Yahoo, AOL, MSN yes.



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