Judge Will Okay Downsized Data Demand from Google

A U.S. federal judge says he will probably give the Department of Justice some of the search data it has asked for from Google, now that government attorneys have greatly reduced the scope of their request.

Justice Dept. lawyers were in court in San Jose yesterday, arguing that Google should be made to comply with an August 2005 subpoena for search data. The DOJ wants to use that information to buttress its case for reinstating a 1998 law shielding children from adult content. Its intent is to show that pornography on the Web is so prevalent that it can