{"id":772,"date":"2006-02-26T21:45:47","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T01:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/02\/26\/what-have-you-been-searching-for-latel"},"modified":"2006-02-26T21:45:47","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T01:45:47","slug":"what-have-you-been-searching-for-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/02\/26\/what-have-you-been-searching-for-lately\/","title":{"rendered":"What Have YOU Been Searching For Lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8053'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/jedgar2.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"423\" align=\"left\">SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25 (AP) &#8211; Google Inc.&#8217;s concerns that a Bush administration<br \/>\n        demand to examine millions of its users&#8217; Internet search requests would<br \/>\n        violate privacy rights are unwarranted, the Justice Department said Friday<br \/>\n        in a court filing.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/26\/national\/26google.html\">The<br \/>\n          New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Wait a minute! The Bush administration wants (somehow that sounds a<br \/>\n        lot scarier than just saying &quot;George Bush wants&quot;, which sounds like the<br \/>\n        setup<br \/>\n        for<br \/>\n        a joke)  to examine MILLIONS of users&#8217; search results? That&#8217;s crazy! <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Dowbrigade has long subscribed to the Dodgeball Dogma while<br \/>\n          making his way through life &#8211; blend in, don&#8217;t attract attention and<br \/>\n          rely on<br \/>\n        the law of averages. If the RIAA has sued 5,000 users out of 100 million,<br \/>\n        and the average defendant was sharing over 500 files, we figure we are<br \/>\n        pretty safe looking for Christmas carols with Lime Wire. If we read that<br \/>\n        the IRS audits 2% of the people with one job who take the standard deduction<br \/>\n        and 5% of the people who itemize, we&#8217;ll take the standard, even if it<br \/>\n        costs us a bit more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But millions of Google Users could easily include YOU or US. They could<br \/>\n        conceiveably be interested in some of the promising email we seem to<br \/>\n        be getting these days from certain foreign pharmacies. And what will<br \/>\n        they make of our fascination with the American Nazi Party? Will they<br \/>\n        conclude we are a skinhead? With a name like Feldman? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On the other hand,<br \/>\n          the Justice Department could easily misconstrue the research we have<br \/>\n          been<br \/>\n          doing<br \/>\n          lately on the<br \/>\n          bladder capacity of a series of aquatic mammals and marsupials. Or<br \/>\n        any number of other passing fancies or arcane areas of legitimate research.<br \/>\n        There are doors that we open in our ceaseless search for knowledge and<br \/>\n        titillation<br \/>\n          which we choose to close immediately, and which should remain closed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Does anyone know of a hack or a simple program that PREVENTS Google<br \/>\n        from keeping a record of your searches, or at least the connection between<br \/>\n        those searches and your IP or actual identity?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25 (AP) &#8211; Google Inc.&#8217;s concerns that a Bush administration demand to examine millions of its users&#8217; Internet search requests would violate privacy rights are unwarranted, the Justice Department said Friday in a court filing. from The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/02\/26\/what-have-you-been-searching-for-lately\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}