The Internet search provider says it's fighting a Bush administration request for information about its customers' searches. Watch out content filter makers, a big test is coming. (eWEEK.com)Internet search giant Google Inc. confirmed Thursday that it is resisting a Bush administration request to review Google customer search habits.
The administration, via the U.S. Department of Justice, has asked Google for several days worth of activity at its main search site.
The million or so queries the government seeks are to serve as raw material to test the effectiveness of commercially-available Web content filters, according to legal documents seen by eWEEK.
The test results, plus an examination of how often a Google user encounters porn, will serve as evidence in an upcoming trial that could breath new life into a child online privacy law.
A court struck down the law, known as COPA, in 2004 because of concerns over how far-reaching it was.
"Google had lengthy discussions to try to resolve this, but were not able to and we intend to resist … vigorously," Google associate general counsel Nicole Wong said, in a statement.
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