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Finally… an article that starts to get more into the heart of the matter…

In Case About Google’s Secrets, Yours Are Safe By Adam Liptak.
Google’s fight with the government over search records has almost nothing to do with privacy and more to do with trade secrets.

And… I don’t agree that this has “almost nothing” to do with privacy.

My reaction to one of this morning’s New York Times articles was an astounded “Wow!”.

After Subpoenas, Internet Searches Give Some Pause By Katie Hafner.

“Government efforts to compel companies to turn over records on users’ search queries have put some Internet users on edge.”

And, please let me explain my astonishment…

Well… it could have been worse. I suppose.

The groan that echoed through our house on my seeing this headline was… well… loud and deep.

Conservative Win in Canada Could Help Repair Ties to U.S. by Clifford Krauss.
“Stephen Harper appears poised to lead his Conservative Party to victory over Prime Minister Paul Martin’s Liberal Party.”

And… no, no, no, no, no. No reparation of this kind please!

Definitely in the “to watch” category… Google Resists U.S. Subpoena of Search Data.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion in federal court seeking a court order that would compel search engine company Google, Inc. to turn over “a multi-stage random sample of one million URL’s” from Google’s database, and a computer file with “the text of each search string entered onto Google’s search engine over a one-week period (absent any information identifying the person who entered such query.” (From Gonzales v. Google, Inc.)