Any Brazillian legal experts around?

via Reuters
http://today.reuters.com/stocks/QuoteCompanyNewsArticle.aspx?view=CN&symbol=GOOG&storyID=185805+01-Sep-2006+RTRS;

Brazil judge orders Google to disclose users' data

From the article:
   A Brazilian judge has ordered the local office of Google to disclose the data of users of its social-networking site Orkut who have been accused of crimes such as racism or child pornography.

Federal judge Jose Lunardelli ruled late Thursday that search giant Google be given 15 days to disclose the information, including the Internet Protocol addresses that can uniquely identify a specific computer on a network.
The judge set a daily fine of 50,000 reais ($23,255) for each individual case if Google refuses to reveal the data."

The story also says that Orkut users in Brazil make up 65% of Orkut's overall user base.

More here. Interesting issues.

http://today.reuters.com/stocks/QuoteCompanyNewsArticle.aspx?view=CN&symbol=GOOG&storyID=185805+01-Sep-2006+RTRS;

Some changes happens this week in Orkut, ilegal content was removed and the service is explict for 18+ years old.

This problems is happening because the brazilians autorities think Google Brazil is the receiver of Jugde orders... but the legal representant of Google Inc. in Brazil is the lawyer Noronha that have contacts with Nicole Wong...

This is a big headache for Google here in Brazil!

PS: Congratulations Philipp for your post in Official Google Blog!!

>>the service is explict for 18+ years old.
Yeah, noticed while re-reading the ToS days ago.

Congratulation to Philipp! I have a question though, why isn't 55 Ways to Have Fun with Google full view in Google Books?