I'm as big a fan of goverment intrusion as the next person, but things may have gotten a little out of hand lately. Take last week's legal contretemps between the Justice Department and Google. Forget for a minute that Google really faces no downside by refusing the government's request to turn over search data. Even if Google loses the case and has to turn over some (truncated) amount of (very general) information about a (random) selection of searches, it still wins in the court of public opinion as a defender of personal privacy. As my colleague Chris Murphy put it, Google should take the court costs out of its marketing budget.
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