We're on a Slippery Slope

A judge today ruled that Google must handover Search records to the Justice Department. As I posted in a related blog, this is the beginning of a slippery slope as far as our privacy online.

The DOJ is claiming that they have legitimate need for the records in an effort to determine exactly who is looking for child porn on the Web, however, can you really trust a government who was caught red-handed in tapping the phone lines of its own citizens.

Sergey Brin has publicly said many times that this could be the beginning of a slippery slope. This raises many questions on what limitations are in place when it comes to the government asking for data. What's to stop them from claiming they need to do research about people doing searches with the keywords 'dirty bomb', 'atomic bomb' or 'join terrorist group'.

We're headed in the wrong direction and I'm earnestly looking forward to anyone standing up to the government and telling them that they crossed the line.