Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The Brazil office of search leader Google has been threatened with massive fines unless it complies with an a federal judges's order to hand over data on users of the South American country's most popular social networking site.
Last week Google Brazil was given just 15 days to comply with an order
made in the federal civil court by Judge Jose Lunardelli to hand over
data on users of the Orkut site suspected of being involved in
pedophilia, pornography and other crimes. The Google office faces fines
of US$23,000 for each day it doesn't comply.
The prosecution in Brazil has also asked for the local Google office to
be fined US$61 million for "moral harm" caused to the populace as a
result of Google's failure to cooperate with authorities in its
investifation of criminal activities on Orkut.
Orkut is Brazil's most popular social networking site and has more than 20 million users.
Google Brazil is basing its defence on the fact that it has already
cooperated fully with Brazilian authorities. However, the data related
to the users of the Orkut site is housed on servers in the US,
therefore the company maintains that the request from the Brazilian
authorities for user data related to Orkut should be made to Google
headquarters in Mountain View California.
Google in the US has already indicated how protective of its user data
the company is, when it successfully defied a US Department Justice of
Order to hand over data related to an investigation made late last year.
However, it remains to be seen whether Google Brazil's defence that it
is just a sales office and has no access to user data on Orkut will
hold up as a defence in the Brazilian justice system. Regardless of
where the data is housed, Orkut is a Brazilian site aimed at Brazilan
audiences and is promoted through Google Brazil.
David Bass
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