A Few Keystrokes Could Solve the Crime. Would You Press Enter?
https://www.justsecurity.org/28752/keystrokes-solve-crime-press-enter/
Jonathan Zittrain writes:
"Imagine that you're a decisionmaker at Google and have
received a plea from the authorities to voluntarily run the
search in question. You're arguably allowed to run it without
getting into legal trouble with your users: the Google privacy
policy provides for the sharing of information with law
enforcement or others if Google has "a good-faith belief that
access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is
reasonably necessary to ... protect against harm to the rights,
property or safety of Google, our users or the public as
required or permitted by law." Someone pulling together a class
action against Google for daring to perform this kind of search
would no doubt want to read it differently, but this is at least
in the ballpark."
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein
Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently
doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone.
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