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Technology & Science

Aug. 22, 2007

Search Engine TorrentSpy Fights Judge's Order to Track Users

Ira Rothken has asked a federal judge to block an order that his client, the search engine TorrentSpy, to start logging information about its users.

By Joe Mullin
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      With the privacy policies of major search engines under scrutiny, a few companies have started boasting about how little they know about their own users. But can they keep their promises to not maintain an electronic paper trail?
      A hard-fought Los Angeles court case over the rules of electronic discovery has come down to an even more basic ...

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