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Google Brazil controversy

p2p news / p2pnet: Google Brazil unit has been ordered to tell the country’s authorities what it’s doing to curb crimes allegedly committed through its Orkut chat rooms.

A spokesman, “confirmed that the unit, Google Brasil, had received a summons from the Public Ministry, but he declined to give details,” says CNET News, explaining the ministry is similar to a US attorney general’s office.

“The summons came after a complaint was filed with the ministry by the nongovernmental organization Safernet, which monitors crime on the Internet,” says the story.

“Since June, we have sought out Google to request preventive measures against crimes that are practiced on Orkut, but we never got a response,” CNET has Safernet president Thiago Nunes de Oliveira saying.

“We found more than 5,000 profiles of users that were publishing images with scenes of child pornography in photo albums,” said Oliveira, who wants Google to remove illegal material and report users that post it, adds the story.

Orkut is also said to have been used to push drugs, mainly ecstasy and marijuana, online.

Also See:
CNET NewsGoogle Brasil summoned on chat room complaint, March 10, 2006
push drugsGang pushed drugs online, July 22, 2005

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