The case has focused attention on just how much personal information is stored by popular Web sites like Google - and the potential for that data to attract the interest of the government and other parties.
Although the Justice Department said it doesn't want any personal information now, the victory would likely encourage far more invasive requests in the future, said University of Connecticut law professor Paul Schiff Berman, who specializes in Internet law.
"The erosion of privacy tends to happen incrementally," Berman said. "While no one intrusion may seem that big, over the course of the next decade or two, you might end up in a place as a society where you never thought you would be."
This is such horse pucky. And it's only the first step into a more sinister situation. Big Brother wants to protect our children from the evils of porn? Yeah right, what a bunch of shit. This is only the beginning. If this crap persists five years from now the internet will be unrecognizable and privacy will be a memory. And I must say how very distressing it is that the Justice Department says it doesn't want any personal information now but will still force open the door for others to dig deep into our personal lives. And although I doubt Google can win this battle I applaud them for standing up instead of bending over and taking it in the ass from the US Government.
Even as it defied the Bush administration, Google recently bowed to the demands of China's Communist government by agreeing to censor its search results in that country so it would have better access to the world's fastest growing Internet market. Google's China capitulation has been harshly criticized by some of the same people cheering the company's resistance to the Justice Department subpoena.
And while I was hoping that Google was worthy of my admiration they go and fuck up just to get the numbers in China. As if China needed more censorship and Google was desperate for dollars. What another bunch of shit. Protect our privacy, protect your trade secrets but sell out to China? China? What kind of fucked up shit is that? What is Google trying to tell us: Privacy is good and censorship is good too? Huh? There's a very small spiteful part of me that hopes Google does get it right in the ass just for being such two-faced pricks. Serve 'em right.