Brazil Senate orders Google to identify website pedophiles

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

BRASILIA (AFP) — A Brazilian Senate panel ordered Google on Wednesday to give it access to 3,261 profiles containing suspected pedophile material on a highly popular social-networking website.

Federal authorities have complained that Internet giant Google refuses to identify users who post criminal material on the social-networking website Orkut.

Under its order, the Brazilian Senate committee that investigates pedophilia would receive all the material that was sought by the authorities, the Senate's official agency reported.

The federal prosecutor for Sao Paulo, Sergio Suiama, told the Senate panel that in the last two years, nearly 90 percent of the 56,000 pedophilia complaints on the Internet were related to Orkut.

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