The Federal government has once again overstepped its powers and made another chilling move into the private lives of law-abiding citizens.
The Department of Justice, under the direction of Attorney General, Alberto Gonzalez, requested random samplings of user search data. So far, the cowards at Yahoo, MSN, and AOL have surrendered some or all of the requested search data. Google is standing alone in opposition to the government’s attempt to invade what little privacy we have left.
The Federal government is defending itself by saying it does not want names of individual search engine users, and they are just conducting research that will help protect children from pornography. Why does the government suddenly feel it has the duty to protect children from pornography? Parents are responsible for protecting their children from pornography. This is not the responsibility of the government.
Regardless of the government’s reasons, it has no right to make demands on companies in the private sector to aid in spying on American citizens. If the Federal government wants to spy on its citizens, it should have to do it on its own with its own resources.
Hopefully, Google will continue to oppose this ridiculous intrusion by the Federal government. The other search engine companies (i.e., Yahoo, MSN, and AOL), which so quickly baked down, should be ashamed of themselves, and they deserve to lose market share to Google.
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