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DoJ search requests

Boing Boing: DoJ search requests: Google said no; Yahoo, AOL, MSN yes.

It seems apparent that Google objected to the request not for privacy reasons, but on grounds that the request was too broad and burdensome.

… Justice is not requesting this data in the course of a criminal investigation, but in order to defend its argument that the Child Online Protection Act is constitutionally sound.

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