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Brazilian judge rules Google must give up Orkut user data for open law enforcement cases or pay $23k per case per day. Google says the law suit is "absurd", the data is on US soil, and US laws prohibit them from releasing the data.

With 65% of Orkut's membership in Brazil, maybe Orkut is about to become one of the fastest shrinking social networking apps on the planet? Reuters

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Quite right too. If Google

Quite right too. If Google doesn't want to do business in Brazil with Orkut they can IP block the country. Hiding behind US law is a smokesceen.

By SlyOldDog at Sep 2 2006 - 15:55

and now, you can have the data

Quote:
Google Inc., which refused in the past year to hand over user search data to U.S. authorities fighting children's access to pornography, said yesterday that it was complying with a Brazilian court's orders to turn over data that could help identify users accused of taking part in online communities that encourage racism, pedophilia and homophobia.

And the part that the people still can't seem to understand...

Quote:
Legal and privacy experts said that Google had no choice but to comply with the court order. "From the law enforcement perspective, if the records are in the possession of the business, the business can be compelled to produce them," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center....The larger point, civil libertarians said, is that as long as Internet companies retain data that can identify people, which they use for marketing purposes, they will become targets of law enforcement.

Washington Post Article

By John Andrews at Sep 3 2006 - 18:47

"Targets of law enforcement"

Love that phrase! As the old saying goes:

"Be afraid of your government. They ain't nice people, and they don't like you."

By fantomaster at Sep 3 2006 - 21:05