Google Responds To Privacy Issues
They’re watching you… every click you make from bathrobes to adult sites Google is keeping track. Or at least for 18 - 24 months so says the latest Google blog addressing privacy issues. In attempts to calm the paranoid masses concerned with Google’s retention of user data geared to personalize searches Google has posted an official statement on The Official Google Blog site. They’ve also included a list of “reasons why we should collect your data and keep it”
We have a legitimate interest in retaining search server logs for a number of reasons:
- to improve our search algorithms for the benefit of users
- to defend our systems from malicious access and exploitation attempts
- to maintain the integrity of our systems by fighting click fraud and web spam
- to protect our users from threats like spam and phishing
- to respond to valid legal orders from law enforcement as they investigate and prosecute serious crimes like child exploitation; and
- to comply with data retention legal obligations.
Looks like they forgot “because we own the internet, and soon we’ll own you and there isn’t anything you can do about it, so quit complaining or we’ll email your mom a list of the sites you’ve been viewing.”
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