The Bush Administration is attempting to get Google to turn over 5 gazillion hizobtytes of data regarding searches conducted by its users. The Administration says they need the data to catch "the evildoers, like those who attacked us on 9/11." With over 5 gadabillion searches a day, Google is the most popular search engine, and news of this request has privacy advocates deeply concerned.
President Bush rebuffed those concerns. "We got ahold of Yahoo's records, and looky here," said President Bush. "This person, Paul Santos - is that an Arabic name? - searched for 'Golden Globes Scarlett Johansson's breasts.' You can't tell me he's not up to no good."
In a patriotic effort to do my part and save Google the trouble of providing my search results, I've listed my most recent searches below:
"Britney Spears" bindi
Reese Witherspoon Chanel dress
link:http://ellenmc.typepad.com/commuterrant/
"remove chocolate pudding from stuffed animal fur"
Pixanne Philadelphia
"degree programs for circus clowns"
"ass pain"
"Scarlett Johansson's breasts"
I hope this helps the cause of freedom!
Google should turn over all of its data ... ALL of it ... it will keep government lawyers employed for all eternity and nothing will ever get done in the Justice Department. It was always my understanding that a subpoena could not be a blanket request, biut must be somewhat specific. And a warrant must indicate the particular thing sought.
Posted by: Bill | January 21, 2006 at 10:19 AM
Oh great, I also did a search for "Pixanne Philadelphia"... Now they'll link me to you and I'll be on the enemy combatant list.
If not that then it will be my searches for tutorials on "exploding land mines", "deployable machine gun nests" and/or "allied tank spawn kill"... All for my game development hobby.
Incidently my Pixanne search turned up this:
http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/
(Pixanne in lower left corner must have tagged it.) I am definitly ordering the "famous flying shed" mousepad!
Posted by: david | January 25, 2006 at 01:19 AM
What I saw on www.pixyland.org is much scarier than Sasquatch!
Posted by: Lisa | January 30, 2006 at 06:51 PM