Hi! On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 02:44 +1030, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> You haven't read the various concerns about Google and privacy, then? > >> If you use Google and Gmail, and allow cookies, there's a fair bet that > >> they can easily database you. After all, databasing is their business. > > Chris Mohler: > > We're quickly headed off-topic, but what makes you think Yahoo, MSN, > > et al aren't doing the same thing? > > I never said that *they* didn't. Databasing is their business, too. > What I took issue with, was David's, "anonymity isn't really an issue > with search engines. They don't record who you are," comment. > > While I'm yet to see a search engine that you directly log onto, there's > enough ways that they *can* record who you are. Particularly Google and > the three that you've mentioned, simply because they all, also, provide > webmail and instant messaging services. And while there's no onus to > provide true information, many will, and with enough databasing you > could track back someone's pseudonym to somewhere they didn't use it. > Google's verification via your mobile phone trick is one way. > > So to be brief, I'm not saying that they "do" (since I don't have any > information to prove that one way or another), but they *potentially* > can. > > -- > (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > Thanks for you answers! At least Tim understand my concerns about the search engines! I am worry about the "net" is getting tighter and tighter... Specially under the cloak of the war against terrorism in the European Union. In Germany is a discussion about using the logs(minimum 2 years they keep the data of track of ALL emails, IPs and Mobildatas) to fight violations of the copyright law... So at first they make a law using the "stalking-horse" of terrorism and a bit later they start discussing to use that data in the interests of the content industry! As i remember the US government has also a eye on google's intern database... Who can say what happens with the information, tracked today, tomorrow? But this list has other concerns now (FC6) :-) But thanks anyway, Claus ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de
