Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy. By Peter Eckersley, Seth Schoen, Kevin Bankston, and Derek Slater.
Google, MSN Search, Yahoo! , AOL, and most other search engines collect and store records of your search queries. If these records are revealed to others, they can be embarrassing or even cause great harm. Would you want strangers to see searches that reference your online reading habits, medical history, finances, sexual orientation, or political affiliation? Recent events highlight the danger that search logs pose. Disclosures like AOL's are not the only threats to your privacy. Search companies should limit data retention and make their logging practices more transparent to the public,4 while Congress ought to clarify and strengthen privacy protections for search data.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has developed the following search privacy tips. 1. Don't search for your name, address, credit card number, social security number, or other personal information. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Conclusion September 2006 2 See. How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect. [UPDATE 2/22/2012] It is important to note that disabling Web History in your Google account will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes.
More information at the end of this post. On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google's other products. This protection was especially important because search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more. Here's how you can do that: 1. 2. 3. 4. Note that removing your Web History also pauses it. If you have several Google accounts, you will need to do this for each of them. Vie privée: Comment échapper au flicage de Google - News High-Tech: Web. Vie privée Le géant de l’internet croise dès aujourd’hui les traces que vous laissez sur ses différents services.Voici comment limiter les dégâts.
Google affirme simplifier son système et garantir la protection des données privées, mais des organes étatiques dénoncent des zones d’ombre.Image: Keystone C’est aujourd’hui que le géant de l’internet unifie les règles de confidentialité de ses différents services. Les informations laissées par un internaute sur Gmail, YouTube, Maps, etc. sont désormais croisées afin d’établir son profil plus précisément. Objectif: offrir une recherche plus précise et vendre des publicités plus ciblées. Mandatée par les autorités européennes de protection des données, la commission française de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) a analysé la nouvelle charte de Google et demandé un report en attendant des clarifications.
Les plus radicaux renonceront à Gmail, YouTube & Co et se tourneront vers d'autres horizons. Règle N°2: supprimez vos historiques.