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Search engine data retention.

I remember reading about Ask's anonymous search feature. ixquick does the same today - http://www.ixquick.com/ -

Ixquick Protects Your Privacy !

The only search engine that deletes your personal data.

Your privacy is under attack !

Every time you use a regular search engine, your search data are recorded.
Your search terms, the time of your visit, the links you choose, your IP address and your User ID cookies all get stored in a database.

The identity profiles that can be constructed from this cloud of information represent modern day gold for marketers.
But government officials, hackers and even criminals also have an interest in getting their hands on your personal search data.
And sooner or later they will...

What could happen ?

Consider the following story:

In August, the online world was jarred by the AOL privacy scandal:
AOL released three months' worth of aggregated search data from 650,000 of its users, publishing all the details in an online database. This database is still searchable. It is an absolute eye-opener to see the potential for privacy nightmares.

—>Enter a "Search Keyword" and find who searched for it
—>Then click on a "User ID" to find what else this user searched for

...

Ixquick's position:

You have a right to privacy.
Your search data should never fall into the wrong hands.
The only real solution is deleting your data.
We delete our users' privacy data within 48 hrs.
We are the first and only search engine to do so.
Our initiative is receiving an overwhelmingly positive response!

http://eu.ixquick.com/eng/protect_privacy.html

I'm not as paranoid as a recent poster regarding leaving "breadcrumbs" across the net, but I don't trust Google or any other of the big players to "do no evil". :hrmph:
 
This weeks "Click " program on the BBC had some very disturbing information about Google and their retention of your personal Data even to the extent of checking all your Google-mail sent and received .
 
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This weeks "Click " program on the BBC had some very disturbing information about Google and their retention of your personal Data even to the extent of checking all your Google-mail sent and received .

Thats what got me searching, all the big names do it , i for one will be using ask.com once the eraser is released.
 
Does anyone remember when AOL released a load of search data, and there were clearly lots of private details in there?

I can't find the file at the moment, but it was a scary read!

Cheers

Tim
 
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