John Battelle did some digging for a reader who wondered whether Google (and search engines in general) could easily match search terms with IP addresses, and vice versa. Here are the questions Battelle bounced off his contacts at Google:"Given a…
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Why IP Address Logging is a Big Deal
Adam Fields has an excellent post discussing why you should be concerned about the fact that your IP address can (and likely is) being tracked by online companies, such as Google. This is such an important topic, I will provide…
Irony via e-mail
I recently received an e-mail from a reader of this site saying "Privacy is gone. Thank you for your efforts to preserve it." Kind words, and I thanked the writer. However, the writer's e-mail "signature" included the his/her full name,…
77% of Google users don’t know it records personal data
The Register reports on a recent poll finding that "More than three quarters of web surfers don't realize Google records and stores information that may identify them." While I can't vouch for the validity of the poll, it certainly seems…
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Iraqi Constitution Would Ban NSA Surveillance Program
Jack Balkin points out that under the new Iraqi constitution (passed with the support of the Bush administration), the NSA spying program would be unconstitutional. According to Article 38:The freedom of communication, and mail, telegraphic, electronic, and telephonic correspondence, and…
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NYT: Internet Users Thinking Twice Before a Search
Katie Hafner of the New York Times writes how some Internet users have changed their search habits now that concerns about government surveillance of web seaches has reached the forefront of the public mind. Among the many anecdotes related in…
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The Slipperly Slope of DOJ v. Google
Steven Levy's Newsweek article on the DOJ v. Google issue closes with a prescient warning of the slipper slope allowing government access to web search history would create:Though the government intends to use these data specifically for its COPA-related test,…
Google Video and Privacy
Ed Felton has a fabulous post on the privacy implications of the Google Video's DRM technology. In his summation, he captures what the ongoing privacy issues with Google really mean for the company:...Google’s famous “don’t be evil” motto, and customers’…
Protecting Your Search Privacy
Following up on the recent Wired News article on how to protect the privacy of your search engine usage, Danny Sullivan has prepared a much more detailed description of the kinds of tracks left behind when using a search engine,…
More Links on DOJ v. Google
Here are more good analyses of the DOJ/Google spat:John Batelle thinks (correctly, IMO) this is more about Google protecting trade secrets than its users' privacy.Dan Solove has two important posts related to the broader issues of commerical data aggregation (and…
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