Google faces $61 million fine for withholding user data

PROSECUTORS in Brazil have demanded that Google supply it with information for a criminal investigation, or face the consequences.

Those consequences could include a $61 million fine and the closure of its Brazilian web site, unless it supplies information about Orkut pages.

Google may also face a daily fine of over $90,000 if it doesn't comply with prosecutor requests that it discloses user information.

Google wants to appoint an expert to assess whether it's complying with legal requests but because the Orkut server is based in the United States it needn't comply with such Brazilian requests. µ

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