InformationWeek | Privacyu | Yahoo, MSN, AOL Gave Search Data To Bush Administration Lawyers | January 19, 2006

InformationWeek | Privacyu | Yahoo, MSN, AOL Gave Search Data To Bush Administration Lawyers | January 19, 2006: "Jan 19, 2006 03:03 PM

Three of four major search engines subpoenaed by the Bush administration have acknowledged that they handed over search data in the government's efforts to revive an anti-porn law that was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Microsoft Corp., which owns MSN, Yahoo Inc. and America Online Inc. said they sent data to the government, but insisted no personal information on users was given to government attorneys. The exception among major search engines was Google Inc., which said it would 'vigorously' fight the government's requests.

The government had asked Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., for a broad amount of data, including a million random Web addresses and records of Google searches over any week, the Associated Press reported. The information came from U.S. Justice Department papers filed Wednesday in a San Jose, Calif., federal court."