The Bush administration is obsessed with invading the privacy of Americans. Obsessed. If it's not Terri Schiavo, it's eavesdropping. Now, it's Google and the internet. Today, Bush and Gonzales had a win in court according to AP:
A federal judge said Tuesday he intends to require Google Inc. to turn over some information to the Department of Justice in its quest to revive a law making it harder for children to see online pornography. U.S. District Judge James Ware did not immediately say whether the data will include words that users entered into the Internet's leading search engine.Hopefully, Google will keep taking the fight to Bush and Gonzales. But, in the bigger story of how the Bush administration is undermining the privacy of Americans, this is one of the key paragraphs from an article earlier today by Reuters:
The legal showdown over how much of the Web's vast databases should be shared with the government has pitted the Bush administration against the Mountain View-based company, which resisted a subpoena to turn over any information because of user privacy and trade secret concerns.
Analysts said the Google case shows it is only a matter of time before the U.S. government may seek access to individual Internet records, just as federal agencies already can do for library or medical records.Bush wants your internet records. He is the most intrusive President ever. There is just no zone of privacy when it comes to the Bush crowd.
