You may have heard about Google being subpoenad by the US Department of Justice, in order to turn over query logs and database contents. Privacy advocates will celebrate that this was largely tossed out today. However, don’t be too hasty. According to the judge’s order, Google was not the only target of subpoenas, just the only one resisting. Page 3 line 22:
… AOL, Yahoo, and Microsoft appear to be producing data pursuant to the Government’s request. …