It’s 1984. . .

and Big Brother is watching you. Incessant noise comes from the box on the wall, and Big Brother’s minions are able to watch your every move.

Well, not yet anyway.

The Feds Want Google’s Data

The Federal Government has issued Google a subpoena to give it access to 1 million random web addresses (IP addresses that are assigned to each computer) and records of all Google searches for any one week period. ( Feds After Google Data, Mercury News)

The twisted thing is that the government is doing this in accordance with an anti-pornography act meant to keep children from accessing such content that was struck down by the Supreme Court two years ago.

Since when do federal law enforcement agencies ignore the Supreme Court?

Google is Resisting

Luckily, Google is vigorously resisting this subpoena on the grounds that they aren’t part of the lawsuit in question and that it would be a violation of Google users’ privacy rights to release such information.

I hope Google wins because if they don’t, it won’t be long until Big Brother is watching your every move and punishing you for anything it doesn’t like.