Brazil gives Google two weeks to turn over user data

The Middle East Times ^ | 9/1/06 | AFP

[verum ago]

SAO PAULO -- Brazilian authorities have given Google Brazil 15 days to turn over user information from Websites that promote criminal activity, threatening the company with $23,000 in daily fines if they do not comply.

Filed through a district court in Sao Paulo, the judicial order Thursday noted that Google had so far "unsatisfactorily met" investigators' data requirements, preventing them from identifying criminal elements using the Internet service.

The government, monitoring online messages for possible crimes, wants the US company to turn over users' personal information to curb violence, racism, discrimination, pornography, and child abuse.

Should Google Brazil refuse to comply fully with the demand, the judicial order provides for levying a $23,000 fine for each day of non-compliance.

[verum ago]

It's the same story everywhere, but I used the ME Times just for the irony; check out the ads o the left sidebar ( Ihope they're the same for you as they were for me)

[Disturbin]

I saw an ad for "Teen Sex Addict Treatment" LOL!

When you go to the site, it's a place in Utah. But they're advertising on a Middle East site?

[Gondring]

I am tempted to figure out what sites these are and Google the term "Brazilian Gevernment Busybodies" with them. :-)

(re: the ads...what's so odd about helping orphan children??)

[Busywhiskers]

What the heck. Google already sold out to the heathen Chicoms, why not Brazil also.

[CAWats]

>Should Google Brazil refuse to comply fully with the demand, the judicial order provides for levying a $23,000 fine for each day of non-compliance.

Which Google will never pay.

[Gondring]

It must have seen a cookie on my computer showing that I frequent http://www.mariaschildren.org/ and figured I support orphan children (which I do).

[WoofDog123]

"What the heck. Google already sold out to the heathen Chicoms, why not Brazil also."

once they got into that box it created a 2-tier system of states important enough to them that they would play ball and states they either thought they could legally resist and prevail or that aren't big enough a deal to mess with.

[verum ago]

oh, the ads I saw were ALL anit-terror ads

[CAWats]

The interior minister is asking for $61 million - 1 percent of Google's worldwide gross income in 2005 - in "collective moral damage" that it insists that Orkut has inflicted.

This is nothing more than a money grab.

[Westbrook]

I was in Brazil in November of 2005 and I saw a public information poster that said,

Sex with children under 12 is against the law!

Good to know they're so conscientious about sexual exploitation of children.

[Gondring]

oh, the ads I saw were ALL anit-terror ads

I take it you've visited some anti-terror sites recently, eh?

Thanks for the heads-up..I haven't been keeping up on clearing cookies, spyware scanning, etc...and the automatic blockers aren't perfect.

[Gondring]

I suppose sex with 12-year-old children is legal?

[Westbrook]

I suppose sex with 12-year-old children is legal?

I can't say that I know for sure, but my wife and I both understood that to be the case when we read the sign.

We heard about 12 year old prostitutes while we were there, but it's likely that every country has those, including the U.S.

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[stm]

It is if you are in Warren Jeffs little sex/pedophile cult

[steve-b]

Brazilian authorities have given Google Brazil 15 days to turn over user information from Websites that promote criminal activity

Hey, let the Brazilians read the DUmmie FUnnies like the rest of us.

[BookaT]

$23,000 a day in fines. lol.

That is about what google charges me to run my ads.

[Gondring]

Then why was he arrested?

[verum ago]

"I take it you've been to some anti-terror sites recently?"
ummmm, no, as a matter of fact
this one has me perplexed

[Gondring]

Since it's a Google ad, perhaps it references recent Google searches...?

[jordan8]

4 adds for baby monitors.