Not matter what the intentions of the Federal Government may have been in their desire to see what we are searching, it is going to cost them a lot a grief as some folks just are not taking the news so well.

Kathryn Hanson, a former telecommunications engineer who lives in Oakland, Calif., was looking at BBC News online last week when she came across an item about a British politician who had resigned over a reported affair with a “rent boy.”

It was the first time Hanson had seen the term, so, in search of a definition, she typed it into Google.

As Hanson scrolled through the results, she saw that several of the sites were available only to people over 18. She suddenly had a frightening thought. Would Google have to inform the government that she was looking for a rent boy — a young male prostitute? [Read the rest]

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