Comments on: Google – where privacy is an evil lie http://www.mulley.net/2006/01/28/google-where-privacy-is-a-lie/ Invisible people have invisible rights Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:55:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: JWT http://www.mulley.net/2006/01/28/google-where-privacy-is-a-lie/comment-page-1/#comment-947 JWT Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:04:16 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2006/01/28/google-where-privacy-is-a-lie/#comment-947 Oh and the BBC did a good piece about Google You can catch it at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4598090.stm John Oh and the BBC did a good piece about Google

You can catch it at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4598090.stm

John

]]> By: JWT http://www.mulley.net/2006/01/28/google-where-privacy-is-a-lie/comment-page-1/#comment-946 JWT Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:54:51 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2006/01/28/google-where-privacy-is-a-lie/#comment-946 Google have always kept this information, its part of the process where they check a pages relativity/usefulness. For example 100 people search for "irritum�, Google logs these requests but more importantly logs the pages clicked to refine the accuracy of their search results. So if all 100 people click the last entry on page 1 then that entry will be moved up the listings next time a search for “irritum� is completed. The scary part is that they also have their cookies set to expire way in the future so even though your IP address may change the logging still tracks you. Couple that with the depth of knowledge that Google has of your searches, resulting page visits, a database that contains the full contents of the site your visiting and you soon see why intelligence agencies are wetting themselves at the thought of data mining Google’s logs. My own gut feeling is that intelligence agencies would have already penetrated Google but this new move is to legalise the data capture in order to make it available in court. John Google have always kept this information, its part of the process where they check a pages relativity/usefulness.

For example 100 people search for “irritumâ€?, Google logs these requests but more importantly logs the pages clicked to refine the accuracy of their search results.

So if all 100 people click the last entry on page 1 then that entry will be moved up the listings next time a search for “irritum� is completed.

The scary part is that they also have their cookies set to expire way in the future so even though your IP address may change the logging still tracks you. Couple that with the depth of knowledge that Google has of your searches, resulting page visits, a database that contains the full contents of the site your visiting and you soon see why intelligence agencies are wetting themselves at the thought of data mining Google’s logs.

My own gut feeling is that intelligence agencies would have already penetrated Google but this new move is to legalise the data capture in order to make it available in court.

John

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