----- Forwarded message from Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:46:18 -0500 To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> Subject: [IP] more on Privacy tip: be wary of Google's "personal history" feature [priv] X-Mailer: Lonely Cat Games ProfiMail Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------- Original message ------- From: Steven M. Bellovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 28/4/'05, 7:58 In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Farber writes: > >And just for an oldie but a goodie, let's remember that for those of us >living in the USA, the Federal government can request and search your >travel, phone, financial, and medical records, in addition to any >records maintained by libraries, religious institutions, retailers >(think Amazon, bookstores, video rental stores) without having to >disclose anything to you. > It strikes me as likely that the government can obtain your search records from Amazon without even a minimal court order. Note the following item in Google's privacy policy: ? We conclude that we are required by law or have a good ? faith belief that access, preservation or disclosure of ? such information is reasonably necessary to protect the ? rights, property or safety of Google, its users or the ? public. It's pretty hard to avoid the conclusion that they're allowed to comply with a simple FBI request: "we think that your user so-and-so is an evil terrorist; can we have his search and email records?" Sure sounds like a public safety issue, right? Or how about "we think that so-and-so is an evil file-sharer; can we have records of all of her searches for 'mp3' or 'kazaa'?" from the RIAA? That sounds like a property issue. But we can go a step further. Google is really good at finding information matches; what if they themselves develop a search profile that "identifies" a terrorist, a file sharer, or what have you? ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net
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