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The US Justice Department has denied requesting anything from Google that could threaten the privacy of the search-engine's users, as the company recently contended.
US Federal prosecutors preparing to defend a controversial Internet pornography law in court have asked Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and America Online to hand over millions of search records -- a request that Google is adamantly denying.
A divided U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week suggested that a federal law designed to restrict Internet pornography violated Americans' rights to freedom of speech, but the court stopped short of a definitive ruling striking down the law as unconstitutional.
Adult Web sites that have largely enjoyed freedom from government interference could be in for an unpleasant surprise tomorrow, when the U.S. Supreme Court is set to deliver a long-awaited ruling on Internet pornography.
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