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Information Technology News Google bends to Brazilian data request
Information Technology News Google bends to Brazilian data request | Google bends to Brazilian data request |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Wednesday, 06 September 2006 | |
  
The data relates to information posted on the Orkut social networking site in Brazil, which involves pornography, pedophilia, racism and other criminal activities. The Brazilian federal prosecutor wants data that can help identify the perpertrators of the criminal postings. Google, which was facing fines of US$23,000 a day plus a further US$62 million and possible closure of its Brazilian office, finally relented when it was clear that the Brazilian courts meant business. Orkut has more than 15 million users and is Brazil's most popular social networking site. Google maintains that the Orkut case is different from the US Department of Justice case because it only involves the transfer of a small specialized segment of its data as opposed to the broad random sampling demanded by the US DOJ. {moscomment} |
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