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Post by xyz3000 on Feb 12, 2024 6:49:55 GMT
The United States Ministry of Justice took legal action to force Google Inc. to hand over a week's sample of searches on its website to US authorities. The company refuses to hand over the data with the justification that disclosing the information would reveal operational secrets developed by its engineers. Three other providers that offer data search services on their websites – America On Line, Microsoft and Yahoo – delivered the information requested by the Ministry of Justice. According to a report by Paulo Sotero for the newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo , published this Sunday (29/1), the government's action opened a new front in what critics consider an offensive by the Bush administration to curtail public freedoms. US authorities claim that the data they requested from Google in August last year is crucial to trying to restore a 1998 law on protecting children from pornography and sexual exploitation on the internet. The law was blocked by the Supreme Court, which considered it Estonia Email List excessive and incompatible with the First Amendment of the American Constitution, which guarantees freedom of expression. The information, says the government, is necessary to establish a set of facts capable of demonstrating that the 1998 federal law would be more effective than the use of filters to make it difficult for children to access pornographic websites. According to Nielsen-Net Ratings, more than 38 million people, or a quarter of active U.S. internet users, visited porn sites last month. According to Adult Video News, a trade publication, Americans spent $2.5 billion on so-called “online adult entertainment” last year. According to Estadão , the case increased suspicions of undue state interference in the lives of citizens raised by the revelation, last month, of a secret wiretapping and e-mail monitoring program by the National Information Agency. President George W. Bush created the program after the September 11, 2001 attacks and has used it dozens of times since then. With Congress about to begin public hearings on extrajudicial wiretapping, Bush began an offensive to convince Americans that, as supreme commander of the Armed Forces of a country at war, he has the constitutional authority to allow wiretapping without judicial permission within American territory. when communications involve suspected terrorist links.
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