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Google prosecuted in Brazil to hand over user data

Corsin Camichel [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, August 23, 2006
17 years ago2,124 views

Google is in danger of being shut-down in Brazil and faces a possible US$61 million fine for refusing to hand over user information associated with one of its social networking sites.

The problem is that the Sao Paulo based federal prosecutor's office alleges that pages on Google's Orkut social networking site are used to promote child porn and other criminal activity. So the prosector wants a federal judge to order Google Brazil to hand over the data on users associated with those pages.

Source: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/5372/53/

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

yeah big deal.. with a of 20 million users in the country, they want $60Million.. figure the maths out..

Bigger deal is that "all data on Orkut is hosted on servers in the U.S" – The the Brazil's Public Attorney's Office can now waste a little bit more of their tax payers money..

Case closed!! –

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