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And ye shall receive: "An Indian man is facing five years in jail for making an "offensive" comment [against Sonya Ghandi] after Google handed his personal dat

• joesb 16y ago
  Distortion. That's not Google spying on people. The guy use Orkut, a social network website, surely there's his account information there. The personal data that is handed over is email address of the account. It's probably a privacy violation if it's really that hard to find out someone's email address once you know his social network account, but it's not spying on people.
  • mahmud 16y ago
    Google OWNS Orkut, in fact, it says so on the 2nd line: Google's Orkut social networking site Here is the same story on TechCrunch showing how Google provided more than just an email address: The owner of the email id Rahul Vaid was traced, using information supplied by Google, to Chakarpur in Gurgaon city of Haryana. http://techcrunch.com/2008/05/18/hit-pause-on-the-evil-button-google-assists-in-arrest-of-indian-man/ http://techcrunch.com/2008/05/18/hit-pause-on-the-evil-butto...
    • joesb 16y ago
      Yes, Google own Orkut. That makes it even less sensible to call Google "spying" on people when one signup for Google's social network.