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did you read the article?[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#6)
by Anonymous User on Fri Jan 20, 2006 at 10:05:24 AM PDT

How can they "find a few perverts" if they don't even request the searcher info? All they asked for was URL's of requested search hits. And how on earth does the guvmint think they can go through two months of Google searches? What would this be, something like 100 gazillion lines of data? This is a power grab, not a legit request for info. I am dismayed Yahoo would acquiesce (sp?) without at least informing its public users what it had done. And good for Google!

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pattern matching possible[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#9)
by dmittleman on Fri Jan 20, 2006 at 10:43:26 AM PDT

Gvt most likely has some pretty powerful pattern matching software, so they could get through the gazillion lines and organize the data.  But it is not at all clear to me that that would tell them.

So they would find that there are lots of searches done for porn or pseudo porn (Pamala Anderson searches et al.).  They won't know who did them, so they won't know whether the searchers are adult or child.  They will conclude:
1. There are lots of search for porn;
2. We don't know who does them; some are plausibly done by kids.

Duh.

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Hi[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#53)
by Anonymous User on Thu Aug 03, 2006 at 05:08:51 AM PDT



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