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Thread started 03/12/03 11:45am

FlyingCloudPas
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Google Privacy Alert!

I got this from another site which I thought I'd share with me fellow orgers:

"I recently went to the Google Watch website and learned about Google setting eternal cookies and retaining a user's web search queries.
According to this website, the Google toolbar for Windows IE, when installed, reports back to Google all of a users browsing behavior, not just searches made directly through Google.
My next thought on learning this was that Apple's new Safari has "Google built-in to the Toolbar". Does this mean that the latest and greatest browser for Mac users has the greatest invasion of privacy built-in, too? I'd sure like to know the answer to this!"

More info here:
http://www.google-watch.org/

Wonder if the retained users web searches will be given to the new gov't? The freedom they fight so much for is slowly, slowly slip sliding away...away...away...





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[This message was edited Wed Mar 12 11:46:02 PST 2003 by FlyingCloudPassenger]
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Reply #1 posted 03/12/03 11:48am

tommyalma

I knew they did this for the toolbar you install, but I didn't know about basic google.com searches. Does this apply to every google search?
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Reply #2 posted 03/12/03 11:55am

lovemachine

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Does this mean the government is tracking all my "Prince naked" and "Wet Prince" photo searches?
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Reply #3 posted 03/12/03 11:58am

sawatdiikhrap

are there any roundabout ways to rephrase 'kiddie porn'?

Orgnote me any suggestions.

evillol


Wait a minute, that's terrible.

Me chainsaw



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[This message was edited Wed Mar 12 12:53:20 PST 2003 by sawatdiikhrap]
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Reply #4 posted 03/12/03 12:41pm

Tom

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noobody knows exactly what google is, they're pretty tight lipped about their company and what they are building with all that information.
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Reply #5 posted 03/12/03 1:43pm

applekisses

All of you are scaring me boxed
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Reply #6 posted 03/12/03 1:44pm

AaronFantastic

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old news.
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Reply #7 posted 03/12/03 2:47pm

ian

You can always turn off cookies biggrin

Hell there are far worse abuses of privacy on the web. Google is still a cool web search engine smile
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