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"It's easy to forget sometimes that Google has a social network, but down in Brazil, Orkut is hugely popular, and that is leading to legal problems.\nWhile Orkut is a bit of an \"also ran\" in the social networking scene in the United States, it still brings in approximately 25 million visitors a month, and half of those are in Brazil alone.\u00A0 When Orkut recently added advertising though, that's when their problems began.\nA law professor in Brazil, Thiago Tavares Nunes de Oliveira, noticed pornographic images on the site, some going as far as child pornography.\u00A0 The illegal images were appearing next to advertising by major corporations, so he started collecting screenshots of this, and issued a report on the illegal activities that transpire on the network.\nNow a prosecutor in S\u00E3o Paulo, Brazil has begun demanding all the server logs from Google so they can go after the criminals.\u00A0 Google is so far refusing, but are now facing fines of up to $100,000 a day for every day they refuse, the closing of their Brazilian office, and the head of the division,Alexandre Hohagen. is facing criminal charges.\nTo add insult to injury, Google has pulled all advertising from Orkut while they\u00A0 review their policies.\u00A0 They have also added a layer of human review to every photo uploaded to the site to prevent any more criminal uploads.\u00A0\u00A0 Thought it should be noted that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the United States says the number of complaints against Orut are similar to those leveled at any other social network.\nGoogle is standing by their privacy policies and insist that since the data is stored on servers inside the United States, they do not have to comply with the Brazilian requests due to our privacy laws.\nThis could get very interesting for the search giant as it moves forward.\n(Via Wall Street Journal)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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