The details haven't been revealed.
Huh? They wanted one million random web address and aggregate data of all Google searches for any one week period without user information.
I gave you a list of five terms that could have been searched for by anybody, because that's what the government would get - they would a ton of search terms that mean nothing, because they have no idea who searched for them, and how old the people doing the searching are, and they don't even know if they were actual people or if they were other websites/scripts/etc. scanning for certain keywords.
Or illegal content.
The government could sit somebody down at a computer, type in www.google.com, and figure out how easily accessed illegal content is. It doesn't take a rocket scientest or a subpoena to type in a few words and hit enter.
Go back and read
this article and you'll understand what we mean when we say the information the government wants is available without subpoena.
If the government wants to know whether kids can access porn online, they can easily find that out by typing www.google.com into their browser, as I mentioned above.
personal information about kids online.
I hate to break it to you, but if you go out to the various photo sharing sites like flickr, PBase, SmugMug, etc., you will find a lot of dumb-ass parents plastering their kids' birthday pictures all over the web. That's not counting all the family blogs and homepages that people setup on their own.
That's also not counting all of the newspapers that put their stories online with pictures of kids (such as a Jr. High Volleyball team or perhaps a local Girl Scout troop).
Hell, I was asked by a friend to handle her country club's swimteam website, and she showed me some of the stuff they wanted to put on there - we are talking pics of kids from 5 years old and on up, from swimmeets, parties, etc., with full names, what schools they went to, and so on. I pointed out the problem and said I wouldn't do it, and they still went ahead and found somebody that did.
That cat was out of the bag the first time somebody posted a pic of their grandkid on their website 10 years ago, and the government can't fix that problem.
Ironically enough, with you bringing up the personal information, and me pointing out parents plastering their kids information and pictures all over the web, we are back to parents having to take some responsibility.
Imagine that.