Yet another article about the whole Google privacy issue came out today in the NY Times. The editorial, Fishing in Cyberspace, talks about “the Justice Department is making this bald-faced grab to try to prop up an online pornography law that has been blocked once by the Supreme Court.” I’m not sure of what this law that had been blocked is exactly, if anyone knows please leave me a reply about it, if not I’ll have to do a little bit of research. The article makes a very good point in saying that “protecting minors from the nastier material on the Internet is a valid goal; the courts have asked the government to test whether technologies for filtering out the bad stuff are effective.” That is a great reason to being looking into different sites and seeing how accessible they are, but why can’t they do that through the government? The FBI here in Buffalo has people who are on the computer all day long going into chat rooms and such, seeing if there is anything illegal going on and whatnot. So why can’t the government set up fake information, say for a 13 year old male and see how easily the can get into certain sites? Why do they need to go through people’s personal searches?
