Elwood P Dowd's Journal: The thing about the whole Google-resisting-GW-subpoena thing

So there's this very frequently-linked article on The Mercury News about Google refusing to turn over search data to the feds.

The thing that I think people are missing here is two-fold:

1. This is the stuff that the Justice Department wanted to publicize . They think media attention will help them here.
2. The stuff that they don't want published will be persued via Patriot Act style secret warrants. I don't know whether there'd be any way for us to know if Google is complying with or fighting those.

Very disturbing

[nizo]

I find the whole thing really disturbing. Allowing the government unfettered access to any company's data opens up a huge can of worms. Just because the government claims it is to protect kids from porn, how do we know it won't be used for other things too? Why do they need access to ALL of the data, why not just the portion that pertains to porn? And there is no reason why Google should spend time/money getting this data for the government; they should be paid for their efforts; this isn't like Google is b