Judge Denies Government Access to Google Search Queries

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Judge Denies Government Access to Google Search Queries

5:00 am on March 20, 2006 | Category: Business, Web Services, Law, Regulation

A federal judge sided primarily with Google in a court decision last Friday, ruling that the internet giant shouldn’t be forced to turn over its private search records to the government.

Google will still be forced to hand over 50,000 random web addresses from its database, but won’t have to reveal any user search queries, as would have been required by the government’s initial demands.

Overall, this is a decisive victory for the cause of citizen privacy rights, as it sets a precedent that the government doesn’t have free access to private data on the internet.

Click here for Google’s official blog post on the recent court decision.