DOJ, Google Battle In Court Tuesday

The Department of Justice has asked the presiding judge in Gonzales v. Google to impose a 21-day deadline for Google to hand over the search records DOJ requested in August 2005. A January subpoena requested by DOJ sought to force Google to give up information from its databases on search activity. Negotiations between Google and DOJ had not proceeded to DOJ's satisfaction, and they have rejected Google's claims that complying with the subpoena will endanger the privacy of its users. Tomorrow, Google learns if it can continue to fend off the DOJ subpoena, or if it will have to hand over information that could reveal some of its inner workings to those who review the data. It is thought that revealing this information could unveil some of Google's trade secrets, a much more frightening prospect to the company than the search records themselves. DOJ claimed it does not want personally identifiable information. The Mercury News response to the lawsuit submitted by here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.