The battle with the Justice Department came to a head for Google after the Bush Administration demanded to get a look at what people search for on the Internet.The company says it won’t turn over that information.Government lawyers say they need the data to defend a law -- tied up in a court fight -- that's intended to shield children from sexually explicit material on the Internet. The material, they said, children encounter too easily.
In court documents, the government asks Google to disclose a random sample of one million Internet addresses in its database and show where else those addresses could take a user.The government is not asking for information about individual Google users, but it is also demanding a week's worth of what Google users enter when they launch a search.Its goal is to find out how often web users encounter material that could be harmful to minors and how effective filtering or blocking programs might be.Supporters of the law said this is the only way to get the information the courts say they need.Google said the government is on a fishing expedition, asking for far too much about what its 12 million users a day are looking for.For the latest news, stay tuned to NBC 30 Connecticut News and NBC30.com
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