and speaking of domestic spying..

While Yahoo and other search engines have been giving information to the US government, Google has refused to give over the information and is fighting a subpoena from the US govt in court.

Congress is debating an extension of the Patriot Act, which dramatically expanded the government's ability to obtain private data.
The issue came to light this week only when Google Inc., the most-used Internet search engine, fought its subpoena. AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo also had been subpoenaed. Government lawyers filed a brief in U.S. District Court in San Jose seeking to force Google to comply.

Under a section of the Patriot Act expanding the use of so-called national security letters, companies such as Google can be asked to turn over potentially useful data — even about people who aren't suspected of wrongdoing — while being barred from disclosing those requests.