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Don't Try This At Home: Hi-Risk Google Searches

Don't do a search on "Gay Nazi sympathizer." Even "Sympathy for the Devil" might be risky. And for God's sake don't go looking for a copy of Luchino Visconti's "The Damned." The watchmen of the night might not understand.
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Hey, did you see this news item? (courtesy Cookie Jill of skippy)

In papers filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, the Department of Justice said Google had failed to comply with a subpoena issued last year for a sample of 1 million Web addresses in the company's index. In addition, the government wanted a list of all search terms entered by Google's users over a one-week period.

They said searches of full names or addresses would show up in the data. What if, they asked, the queries also included a sensitive term such as "Nazi sympathizer," "homosexual" or "terrorist"?

So don't do a search on "Gay Nazi sympathizer." Even "Sympathy for the Devil" might be risky. And for God's sake don't go looking for a copy of Luchino Visconti's "The Damned." The watchmen of the night might not understand.

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