Yahoo, MSN, AOL and others buckle: Google holding out

Earlier this week I wrote on how Google is refusing to hand over records to the Feds.

Bush and Company are being aggressive in their eavesdropping techniques – stopping at no boundaries. Under pressure from a provision in the Patriot Act, several major search engine services handed over search engine records to the Federal Bureau of Investigation that possibly includes billions of search requests by Americans.

Google is still refusing.

There is an article posted on today’s Common Dreams from the Los Angeles Times entitled
U.S. Obtains Internet Users’ Search Records
Yahoo and others reveal queries from millions of people; Google refuses. Identities aren’t included, but the data trove stirs privacy fears.

“Their demand for information overreaches,” said Nicole Wong, Google’s associate general counsel. “We had lengthy discussions with them to try to resolve this but were not able to, and we intend to resist their motion vigorously.”

Yes! Resist!

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