August 12, 2006

Your Life as an Open Book - New York Times

Your Life as an Open Book - New York Times:

You can bet that the AOL breach will trigger legislation in this arena. Google in particular and the other search companies have a lot at stake here and will oppose much of what consumers may expect.

I have long maintained that privacy has been long gone for people who live a digital lifestyle unless they take great pains to remain anonymous. A few do, but the overwhelming majority do not.

"As it stands now, little with regard to search queries is private. No laws clearly place search requests off-limits to advertisers, law enforcement agencies or academic researchers, beyond the terms that companies set themselves."

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