Are your secrets safe with Google?

May 15, 2007 by
Filed under: Search 

Kudos to Google for being a little transparent about their reasons why they collect data and what they do with it. But, don’t you think some of their reasons were still a bit vague? The data retention argument they came up with was amazing. They say that they protect the privacy and security of their users, then why don’t they just purge all the data or never collect them?

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  1. Loki Clock on Tue, 19th Jun 2007 9:29 pm

    2. Collecting them in the first place and having them processed and kept helps the search engine refine it’s self, but if they don’t already, they should have the system only keep the necessary corrections, and not all of the search data. They should get rid of any identifiable information, including time and exact websites visited. Otherwise, like the AOL scandal, you could find out who was doing what based on server logs of URL backtracks, which record the URL a machine corresponding to an IP Address came to the site by at what time. I see websites that make news posts about weird searches people came to their site by all the time.