Brazil tries to seize data on users of Google's OrkutBy Alberto Alerigi Jr.
SAO PAULO, Brazil, March 10 (Reuters) - Brazilian authorities said on Friday they will seek warrants to seize information on hundreds of users on the Orkut social network, operated by search engine giant Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research), for suspected Internet crimes.
Sergio Suiama, a federal public prosecutor at the cyber-crimes unit of the Public Ministry, said the ministry will seek warrants to investigate Brazilian users suspected of publishing child pornography and drug trafficking on Orkut.
The request for warrants would be based on a report by the nongovernmental group Safernet,
http://www.safernet.org.br, which monitors crime on the Internet, Suiama said.
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If the network is actually used by child pornography ring, human trafficking ring and heroine trafficking ring, I feel like that they cannot be allowed to operate freely, but I also want to have a certain privacy as well. It's a difficult issue to deal with.
