[governance] Is this for real?

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

Scary :o

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Roland Perry <
roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:

>  at 13:29:20 on Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
> <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> writes
> >Is this for real
>
> [Google web history]
>
> Deleting the web history associated with an account should be fairly
> safe - if it transpires that this is a lie (and such things have a
> tendency to leak out eventually) it would be catastrophic for the
> organisation.
>
> On the other hand, I've just looked at the Web History for my two main
> accounts, and one has never had it switched on and the other account has
> only a few entries a week, which shows how rarely I actually "log in",
> despite doing probably hundreds of Google searches a day.
>
> On the other other hand, I had heard they kept something a bit like the
> web history but linked to IP address and/or cookie, rather than account.
> This rather old article explains how:
>
> <http://searchengineland.com/google-anonymizing-search-records-to-
> protect-privacy-10736>
>
> I don't know if they still do this.
>
> Much more detailed (but also old) article about Google tracking:
>
> <http://searchengineland.com/google-search-history-expands-becomes-web-
> history-11016>
> --
> Roland Perry
>
>
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