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Google's long memory stirs privacy concerns
REUTERS.COM ^ | JUNE 3, 2005 | ANDY SULLIVAN

Posted on 06/03/2005 10:00:08 AM PDT by CHARLITE

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1 posted on 06/03/2005 10:00:10 AM PDT by CHARLITE
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""You wouldn't want them to throw away all the queries that have been done -- that's like throwing away history," said Danny Sullivan, editor of the trade publication Search Engine Watch."

That's like saying "the cops can come in my house anytime they want. I have nothing to hide."

Seems we fought a few wars over that imbecilic attitude.

2 posted on 06/03/2005 10:05:49 AM PDT by G.Mason (Support your local fact checker)
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This seems a bit paranoid to me. The government can listen in on people's internet activity without help from google, if they choose, but there is such a flood of information on the net it's of doubtful use unless they have some other reason to want to nail someone.


3 posted on 06/03/2005 10:05:53 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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"If it's useful, we'll hold on to it," said Nicole Wong, a Google associate general counsel.

Useful to whom?

4 posted on 06/03/2005 10:06:19 AM PDT by My2Cents
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To: CHARLITE
Yes, its googles job, because obviously they must be smarter then the consumer.

Bis business is always smarter then the average person who must be stupid.

Sarcasm

5 posted on 06/03/2005 10:25:23 AM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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"The government can listen in on people's internet activity without help from google, if they choose"

Really? How can they do that?

Sure, they can go to the ISP of the person and track their online activity but that isn't what you are referring to, is it?


6 posted on 06/03/2005 10:26:24 AM PDT by webstersII
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To: G.Mason

Wanna see something scary, but still cool. Check out the WayBack machine.

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

It archives websites and lets you jump back to a point in time. Websites like this one!!!!

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.freerepublic.com/


7 posted on 06/03/2005 10:28:31 AM PDT by FreeInWV
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Actually, they even have all versions of your about page:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.freerepublic.com/~gmason/


8 posted on 06/03/2005 10:31:08 AM PDT by FreeInWV
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Not that many months ago you could view the old FR archives. Read the posters postings, etc.. Seems they have stopped that.

I had a little fun back then commenting on a thread that had not been commented on in years. You should have seen the hornets nest that turned up. Freepers were Freep mailing Freepers and the next thing you know I was surrounded by Freeper Ferrets. ;)


Thanks fot the url.

9 posted on 06/03/2005 10:41:13 AM PDT by G.Mason (Support your local fact checker)
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To: FreeInWV

That was great! Thanks. I think. ;)


10 posted on 06/03/2005 10:44:27 AM PDT by G.Mason (Support your local fact checker)
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Zbigniew Brzezinski Protegé of David Rockefeller, co-founder of The Trilateral Commission, and NSA to Jimmy Carter, from his 1971 book Between Two Ages. (Brzezinski has been adviser to no less than five presidents)

"The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. [...] [T]he capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. It will soon be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date, complete files, containing even most personal information about the health or personal behavior of the citizen in addition to more customary data. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."


11 posted on 06/03/2005 10:45:22 AM PDT by gregwest
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Zbigniew Brzezinski = POS


12 posted on 06/03/2005 10:51:30 AM PDT by demlosers
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To: webstersII

There were stories that NSA computers were keeping track of anybody who used certain words over the net during the clinton years, and the FBI set up some big computers too. I don't know how much of it was true (how would anyone know?) but there was plausibility.

This also covers most phone conversations because of the use of wireless relays.

Try doing a google search of "NSA eavesdropping."


13 posted on 06/03/2005 11:21:18 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Zbigniew Brzezinski = POS.

That may be true but I remember a few years ago he was trumpeting one of his books and he went on and on about how the US will have to get into the Trash-can-istan areas and become a key strategic player there before too long.

Seems his predictions were right on the money....


14 posted on 06/03/2005 11:22:37 AM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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Google "Echelon"...that's NSA's snoop stuff......some claim it can tell when your pop-tarts are done in your toaster oven.

FBI's "Carnivore" pooter sniffing program had a name change to a soft and fuxzzy title like DSC2000 or something like that....

All this data collection isn't worth a hill of beans unless you have the eyeball power to analyze it.


15 posted on 06/03/2005 11:28:39 AM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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"If it's useful, we'll hold on to it," said Nicole Wong, a Google associate general counsel.

A new feature called "blackmail"

16 posted on 06/03/2005 11:32:01 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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"bmail" LOL


17 posted on 06/03/2005 11:46:51 AM PDT by My2Cents
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To: FreeInWV

damn, that's nifty. nowhere near complete, but nifty.


18 posted on 06/03/2005 12:38:14 PM PDT by King Prout (RG'OIHGV 08 YAEGRKoirliha35u9p089 y5gep'iojq5g353hat5eohiahetb98 ye5po)
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To: taxed2death
All this data collection isn't worth a hill of beans unless you have the eyeball power to analyze it.

Exactly. If your name is Al Capone, they might use this stuff to nail you, but there's no way they are going to go after Joe Citizen because he visited some suspect web site.

Back in the clinton days, many of us used to play games, sending emails or posting messages that used the list of forbidden words which Carnivore was supposed to be set to pick up.

19 posted on 06/03/2005 6:34:40 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Good God!! How many YB (yottabytes) are their servers???


20 posted on 06/04/2005 4:47:51 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
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