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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
coming soon: google blackmail
I have a friend for whom Internet privacy is very important. Like he explained to me how I should make up an alternate birthday--that does not share digits with my actual birthday--and give that to companies instead of my actual birthday. I've always regarded this as a little paranoid. Then I started reading the story of AOL making publicly available search results for a three-month window, changing usernames to identifying numbers to "protect privacy," apparently without realizing that people give a lot about themselves away with three months of search results. The site AOLstalker lets you look through other people's searches, although I believe they are redacting directly identifying personal information (whether for mercy- or legal-based reasons, I don't know). Here are selected actual searches for March through May by User #672368:
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Talk about making things up! It's Tuesday morning in Cambridge, old boy.
The issue of date/time stamps is addressed in my sidebar, old boy.
middle-aged-boy, google would be lucky to have you, although i wonder whether you could actually get a job with them (sounds like a dare).
Boy o Boy! Cat Fight!
1. Google's not into social scientists. That comes from someone inside Google who actually has a say in what they may be into.
2. Didn't I also mention that you should switch to different search engines when doing sensitive searches.. especially ones that are not affiliated with an account that you're logged into nor with your ISP?
I am not looking to leave academia.
This is a hilarious post - well done!
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