Judge: Google must give feds limited access to records | CNET News.com
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update In a move that alleviates some privacy concerns, a federal judge granted part of a Justice Department request for Google search data but said users’ search queries were off-limits.
The 21-page order (click here for PDF), issued Friday in San Jose, Calif., by U.S. District Judge James Ware, represented little change from his stance at a hearing earlier this week.
Ware had indicated he would grant the U.S. Justice Department access to a portion of Google’s index of Web sites but said he was hesitant to ask for users’ search terms because of worries about the “perception by the public that this is subject to government scrutiny” when they type search terms into Google.com.
