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Prosecutors Want Google To Hand Over Millions Of Search Records
January 19, 2006 8:00 p.m. EST

Yvonne Lee - All Headline News Staff Reporter

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Federal prosecutors asked a California court
to force Google to hand over information that would reveal what
thousands of the Web site's users are searching for.

Google refused to comply with a subpoena that was also given to
Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL, demanding the Internet service providers give
prosecutors millions of search records, reports ZDnet.

The Bush administration demand falls under the controversial 1998 Child
Online Protection Act. The law is being challenged in court by the
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which says it violates freedom
of speech.

Prosecutors are asking Google for a "random sampling" of 1 million
Internet addresses accessible though its search engine, and a random
sampling of 1 million search queries.

Google says in a statement, on Thursday that it will resist the request
"vigorously."