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In the NSTIC world, that data is all held in one or a few Identity Provider databases with all your online activities of ANY SITE that participates in the NSTIC online authentication system and maybe even outside of that (have you heard of the...
Yahoo, which announced plans to anonymize search logs, page views, page clicks, ad views, and ad click data it collected after 90 days in 2008, is reversing course and plans to begin storing search logs for 18 months -- as well as potentially...
At least four times, Barksdale spied on minors' Google accounts without their consent, including tapping into Google Voice call logs and accessing chat transcripts and contact lists. David Barksdale, a 27-year-old former Google engineer, repeatedly...
The data includes search logs, page views, page clicks, ad views and ad clicks. Personally, I wish the search engines would do a better job of informing the public about how their data collection really isn't the privacy issue that so many make it...
And as John Paczkowski points out at AllThingsD, the link just happened to go up just after a judge ruled that Google has to hand over YouTube user logs in a suit brought against it by Viacom. Recently, Google has been resisting calls to add a...
The logs were intended to help academic researchers, but they were posted on a public site. The story's central clue is the real-life online search log of an AOL subscriber — identified only as User 927 — that was released to the public two years...
PDF) asks for the FTC to: order AOL to refrain from collecting or storing logs of its users' search activity except where necessary incident to the rendition of AOL's services or the protection of AOL rights and property, and to refrain in any...
Techmeme is reporting a huge amount of concern over AOL releasing, then pulling, search logs done by users over three months. But most search behavior studies outside of the search engines have depended on ancient search logs from places like...
NOT have to provide the DOJ with query logs. Now it has a court backing up the idea that query logs are private. Reports from the Congressional Research Service on Internet Privacy, Net From my reading of the ruling (PDF format), the judge found...
If Google wants consumers to trust it to store copies of personal computer files, emails, search histories and chat logs, and still 'not be evil,' it should stand with EFF and demand that Congress update the privacy laws to better reflect life in...
News.com almost certainly logs IP addresses when you do a search there. Privacy At Google resolve" or trace these numbers back to addresses from the various internet service providers. Your Search Privacy: A Flowchart To Tracks You Leave Behind
My guess is that they want to pull a random sample of results from the query logs, then do some searching to see if they encounter pornography with porn filters switched on and off at each of the major search engines.
Should search query logs be made less accessible to advertisers? Britney Spears remains a popular search topic, so a query like this: britney spears while private isn't going to cause privacy concerns for most people, if it is publicized.
However, it probably still logs your IP and may have other ways of knowing a particular person may be using the service. Google says in its privacy policy that it may log some of the pages you view.
Mayer told me that when Google prefetches a page, webmasters will see a Google user agent in their user logs. You might also want to review the GWA privacy policy. It's only available for Windows (Win XP or Win 2000 SP3+) and works with Internet...
And there have already been search privacy issues raised about search query logs in general. The longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members goes into more depth on privacy issues and looks more closely at how ads will be rotated...
And there have already been search privacy issues raised about search query logs in general. My past article on search privacy looks at the difference between being cookied and personally identified in more depth.
Examining query logs is often a surprising and humbling experience. Behavioral Targeting Offers Branding Opportunities, But Privacy, Regulatory Concerns Abound. Yahoo's Weiner, in a thinly veiled swipe at Google, said what surprised him most was...
Gold in Logs Cre8asite Forums gather your log files and look at your keyword referral data. Amazon risks privacy concerns with new search website. Researchers develop 3-D search engines for Internet. Amazon's New Search Enters Beta Webmaster World...
There were 100 queries randomly selected from a set of 1 million real ones provided by Inktomi's search logs. Homeland Security taps privacy official. SiliconValley.Internet.com Apr 17 2003 10:44AM GMT
