Danny Sullivan has an essential post on search engine privacy up at Searchenginewatch. He discusses and explains a recent survey.
News.com has asked some questions to search engines. One of the question was if the search engine in question gives the government the data it has on its users.
Google and others replied with a no comment.
Now anybody paying half attention knows that the Bush administration does not believe in obeying any privacy laws. They operate under the weird theory that they can do any spying they please. See for example Glenn Greenwald's blog for some pointers.
Under these circumstances, I for one read "no comment" as "yes, of course we are selling out our users to the NSA for any data mining they might be interested in".
Posted by Karl-Friedrich Lenz at February 9, 2006 09:49 AM