Court might order Google to handover limited search records to government

Search engine giants Google was recently asked by the US Department of Justice to handover a particular number of search engine records in order to see what people searched for on the world’s most popular search engine. However, Google refused to comply claiming that this would result in breach of their user’s privacy, which they respect profusely.

However, they just might be forced by the US courts to comply with this requirement through the number of search records would be lowered significantly. A federal judge said in a statement that he intends to order Google Inc. to turn over some of its Internet records to the U.S. Justice Department.

However, the judge also had some relief for the search engine company has he expressed reservations about government’s requirement for Google to divulge some of its most sensitive data — the actual requests that people enter into its popular search engine.

Federal Judge James Ware stressed on the fact that he was concerned about the Justice Department’s demand for a random sample of search requests on Google by its users. He added that he does not want to end up telling the web users that government would be able to use this kind of information in the future to become a tool for government surveillance.

The ruling is expected to come out really soon.