Re: SF new column announcement: Google's data minefield

[Yousef Syed <yousef.syed () gmail com>]

The best way around it would be to not store any data that could
indentify an individual.
Google want to know what people are searching for, what links they
considered pertinent to their search etc. They don't need to store my
Name, Address, IP address etc.

Strange how much personal privacy we are happy to give up at the click
of a button...


On 02/02/06, Gaddis, Jeremy L. <jeremy () linuxwiz net> wrote:
> Kelly Martin wrote:
> > The following Front Page column was published on SecurityFocus today:
> >
> > Google's data minefield
> > by Mark Rasch
> > 2006-01-30
> >
> > The U.S. government's broad subpoena to search engines effectively seeks
> > to mine the data of the Internet. While Google has resisted the
> > subpoena, there may be little they can do to protect our privacy from
> > prying eyes.
>
> Really?  They could simply not log it.
>
> I have had customers in the past where we decided not to retain
> information such as search queries, mail server logs, web server logs,
> etc.  It's somewhat empowering to tell someone's attorney, "Sorry, I
> can't give you that information -- we don't retain it."
>
> Of course, the downside to Google not logging the search terms would be
> that they wouldn't have access to them either.  Google needs that type
> of information in order to survive, one could argue.
>
> -j
>
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