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Google carves a middle path on privacy

Date: September 8, 2006

Author: Andrew Downie

QUOTE: the company moved a step closer to establishing a global legal precedent on how Internet firms cooperate - or not - with government requests for information about Web users. It's a contentious issue that involves principles of personal privacy, political and commercial free speech, and fighting crime - be it pornography, pedophilia, racism, or terrorist plots.

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Key People:

Key Organizations:

• America Online Inc. (AOL)
• First Church of Christ, Scientist The
• Google
• Human Rights Watch (HRW)
• Justice Department/Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Microsoft Corporation
• Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
• Yahoo!

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Law & Justice
  • Civil Rights / Equal Protection
    • Free Speech: Other Issues/General
      • Free Speech: Decency/Pornography
    • Hate Groups/Hate Crimes/Hate Speech
    • Privacy: Other
      • Anonymity/Surveillance/Identity Theft/Confidentiality
      • Internet/Online (General)
  • Justice System
    • Jurisdiction
  • Non-US systems: International Law

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

• South America
  • Brazil

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