Google Denies US Government
Search giant Google has denied requests by the United States government to hand over it's search results. Though the Department of Justice(DoJ) claims the search results are needed for their investigation, Google has responded by claiming the requested information will not help in the DoJ, due to the way Google's search engine works.
"The DoJ has made the request to shore up attempts to show that voluntary regulation is not doing a good enough job of keeping children free of the unsavoury material, largely pornographic, that exists online.
The document expressed its disbelief in US goverment assertions that the list of search words would help understand user behaviour."
It's also worth noting that Google has been criticized recently, along with Yahoo! and Microsoft, for cooperating with the Chinese government over censorship issues.
