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

["Gaddis, Jeremy L." <jeremy () linuxwiz net>]

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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Jeremy L. Gaddis, GCWN, Linux+, Network+
LinuxWiz Consulting
http://www.linuxwiz.net/

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