The US Department of Justice insisted in a court filing Friday that the information the search engine data government is seeking from Google as part of its effort to revive the Child Online Protection Act would not be traceable to specific users. Google had previously refused [JURIST report] to comply with a subpoena to hand over internet search information, claiming that the government's demand to view Google users' internet search requests would violate privacy rights and their own trade secrets. The Justice Department submitted a declaration by researcher Philip B. Stark, who rejected Google's privacy concerns and stated that "the study does not involve examining the queries in more than a cursory way."
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