From declan@well.com Fri Jul 6 02:33:33 2018 From: Declan McCullagh To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: [Politech] Survey: Google, MSN, AOL, Yahoo say what information they keep [priv] Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:33:33 +0000 Message-ID: <172288960236.3849117.3408270948677535329.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============5133798675125209511==" --===============5133798675125209511== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable So we've been working on a survey of search engines, and what data they keep and don't keep. We asked Google, MSN, AOL, and Yahoo the same questions: - What information do you record about searches? Do you store IP addresses linked to search terms and types of searches (image vs. Web)? - Given a list of search terms, can you produce a list of people who searched for that term, identified by IP address and/or cookie value? - Have you ever been asked by an attorney in a civil suit to produce such a list of people? A prosecutor in a criminal case? - Given an IP address or cookie value, can you produce a list of the terms searched by the user of that IP address or cookie value? - Have you ever been asked by an attorney in a civil suit to produce such a list of search terms? A prosecutor in a criminal case? - Do you ever purge these data, or set an expiration date of for instance 2 years or 5 years? - Do you ever anticipate offering search engine users a way to delete that data? Their verbatim responses are here: http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6034626.html And a FAQ and analysis of the shortcomings of the relevant federal privacy law, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, is here: http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6034666.html -Declan _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which h= ad a name of signature.asc] --===============5133798675125209511==--