MSN, Google, Yahoo And Others
Are Tracking Your Every Move!
Most of us don't search for instructions on how to build bombs or uranium enrichment, but if you did out of curiousity would you find an FBI Agent at your doorstep one day? It could happen easier than you think. After all the government has been trying to gain more and more access to private information without having to first obtain search warrants.1
Under the mission of "More Precise Ad Targeting" Google has created the most incredible spying machine that has ever existed on the face of the planet. They have recorded everything you have ever searched for and attached it to your IP address. In addition, if you use google adwords, gmail or other personalized services they have also added your complete information profile into the mix. I have been using Google Toolbar, Google Adwords for years and Gmail in the past, so all my online activities are neatly compiled in a Google database somewhere.
My question is: Why do they need to store this information indefinitely?
Do they intend to use it for something in the future? Or do they just want to learn every possible insight into human behavior so they can use it to make more money? In my opinion it makes an incredibly inviting source of data for any government agency on a witch hunt!
The truth is that many of us plug things into the search engines that we hear on the news just out of sheer curiosity. I know I've searched for information on Meth and other things just to find out more about what it was, not because I wanted to cook up a batch. To a DEA agent however, anyone who has searched for how meth is made could be a potential "cooker"! Yikes!!
What Can You Do To Keep From Being Tracked When Using Search Engines?
I've started using something called Scroogle. They have developed a neat little appliance that can be used to search either Google or Yahoo without all the tracking and absent the ads. In fact, if you were among the first to use Google when it was introduced it will seem like the good old days!
Google Scraper
Yahoo Scraper
It uses an anonymous IP address to complete your search and logs are deleted within 48 hours. That's actually how all search engines should operate!
How Scroogle Works:
Think Twice About Gmail ( They keep my deleted emails? That's just wrong! )
Related Articles:
1Interesting News Story about how the government tried to obtain the right to track GPS Cell Phones without the need for a warrant.
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