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    The Challenges of the Values Advocate

    Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

    When Ask.com launched AskEraser, a new service which promises to protect user privacy by, upon request, deleting users’ search activity from Ask.com servers, I applauded the effort, but also pointed out some of its shortcomings.
    The privacy advocacy group EPIC, however, took a much more aggressive position, and sent a letter to Ask.com [pdf] urging them […]

    AskEraser Launched, but Incomplete Protection

    Thursday, December 13th, 2007

    As previously discussed, Ask.com has launched AskEraser, a new service which promises to protect user privacy by, upon request, deleting users’ search activity from Ask.com servers.
    Ask has put together quite an extensive help page explaining the details of AskEraser, including important caveats about the actual coverage of the service, which has some significant gaps. For […]

    CNet: How Search Engines Rate on Privacy

    Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

    I’m under deadline pressure currently, so very quickly:
    Declan McCullagh and Elinor Mills at CNet have surveyed the major search engine providers about their privacy practices related to retention of user data and behavioral targeting. Full story here, and the search engines’ actual replies here.

    Excellent summary, but much remains unknown…

    Web-search privacy efforts move to forefront

    Monday, July 23rd, 2007

    The title of this post is the headline from a story in today’s Wall Street Journal (non-firewall version here), detailing how the largest web search engines are starting to make changes to how they handle the data collected from their users — and how some are approaching it as a competitive advantage to try to […]

    Ask.com To Allow Users to Control Data Retention

    Friday, July 20th, 2007

    In a bold, unilateral move, the web search engine Ask.com has announced it will soon be implementing a new product called AskEraser which promises to allow users to erase their search history:
    With AskEraser, people can ensure that their search history will not be retained by Ask.com. Searchers will have easy access to AskEraser and […]