Michael Zimmer, PhD, is a digital privacy and data ethics scholar at Marquette University
Social network services are increasingly being used in legal and criminal investigations. Google's social networking site Orkut, which is immensely popular in Brazil, is no exception. In 2006, I commented on Google's decision to comply with a Brazilian court order…
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Boing Boing has two good posts detailing how Google has been cooperating with Mumbai and Brazilian authorities to help censor content and track down offenders on their Orkut social networking service. In the Mumbai case: The Indian Express and other…
Here's a good example of the kind of information Google collects from users of its non-search products: The Washington Post is reporting that Google will comply with a Brazilian court order to release data on users of its Orkut social…
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