Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles In Brazil 445
Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf, points to a Yahoo! story which begins "Google on Wednesday handed over data stored by suspected pedophiles on its Orkut social networking site to Brazilian authorities, ceding to pressure to lift its confidentiality duty to its users, officials said."
As far as I can tell... (Score:3, Informative)
Who posed for the pics, jackass? (Score:1, Informative)
Have you guys even followed this case? (Score:1, Informative)
It's not a case of "let's see if they are doing something wrong", it's a case of "what is the identity of the people who posted those images there and what else is in the now-private albums?"
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080410-129449/Brazil-Senate-orders-Google-to-identify-website-pedophiles
The case for investigation has been made a long time ago not only for pedophiles groups but also for communities that were being used to traffic and sell illegal drugs. Google just didn't want to open up for search claiming the Brazilian court had no jurisdiction over it.
Some of you people seem to think privacy trumps everything else even when anyone with an ounce of common sense can see that crimes are being committed.
Isn't the entire story. (Score:5, Informative)
Which isn't quite the entire truth.
See, for example, http://www.denunciar.org.br/twiki/bin/view/SaferNet/Noticia20071019015559En
and you'll discover
"But Google faced a growing wave of complaints, many instigated by Mr. Tavares. Sérgio Gardenghi Suiama, a federal prosecutor in São Paulo in charge of human rights, began flooding the company's Brazil office with subpoenas seeking identifying information, such as email addresses, of Orkut users accused of committing crimes online.
Under direction from Google's U.S. headquarters, Mr. Hohagen refused to accept the subpoenas. Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, traveled to Brazil to explain the situation."
Eventually, authorities threatened to start arresting Google employees in Brazil, and courts started issuing threats of contempt, so they complied.
Not sure what else you guys were expecting to happen?
Re:There must be a reasonable middle ground somewh (Score:2, Informative)
It is basically a flimsy list. Lots of it is just teenagers being raunchy. The line does get blurred between the 16-22 demographic.
As an aside:
Also we don't really have a bill of rights. We have a section in the constitution that enumerates rights but it contradicts itself (Not a bill of rights because it doesn't supercede the constitution). It starts by saying that everyone is equal in the eyes of the law but then mentions a few special rights for special groups. People with college degrees get to be in a jail cell by themselves for example.
Re:Once the government's bitch, evermore their bit (Score:5, Informative)
McCarthyism [wikipedia.org]
CC.
Re:Once the government's bitch, evermore their bit (Score:5, Informative)
Kneejerk reactions like yours ruin society for the rest of us, far more so than a handful of pedophiles, real or alleged, ever could.
Re:There must be a reasonable middle ground somewh (Score:5, Informative)
Mod Parent UP! (Score:3, Informative)
Innocent until proven guilty is not by any means a recent concept. The concept was around even during ancient greece.
This idea is key to democracy, as otherwise, there can be no freedom if everyone has to prove their innocence at every turn. Because the US is turning into a guilty until proven innocent state, especially where heinous crimes like terrorism or child abuse are concerned (and Iraq--musn't forget Iraq), it is exactly the kind of indicator that this country is turning away from democracy and into something far worse.
Re:Stop it (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Once the government's bitch, evermore their bit (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/12/nyregion/12video.html [nytimes.com]
The FBI wouldn't spy on you for being in a peaceful anti-war group, right?
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MIL20060127&articleId=1835 [globalresearch.ca]
No one would be arrested because they wore an anti-Bush Tshirt, right?
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/17/3243/ [commondreams.org]
And you accuse others of not seeing? Look the f*ck around.
=tkk
Re:Once the government's bitch, evermore their bit (Score:3, Informative)
The fiction is the pornography in question - you did know the term covers literature too, rather than just pictures ? From the link, with emphasis added by me for your benefit:
Re:U.S. definition of child pornography (Score:3, Informative)