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The New Search Privacy Standard
poundprivacy.org — Great idea, creating an opt-out privacy standard for all search engines..."Frankly, Google cannot reconcile its "do no evil" motto and their current position on privacy."
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- fantomaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Great idea - creating a grassroots movement to fight for privacy and ward off uncontrolled data mining in search.
- breezeman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I firmly believe this does have a chance to succeed!
- andyboyd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's a pretty good idea. Engines have a lot of data on users, a standard privacy policy would go some way to safeguarding us.
- BoneyB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The summary doesn't say, so FYI, in a nutshell, the standard is this:
If you type a search like "keyword keyword #privacy", your IP address is not recorded, nor is there any "cookie action".
(Of course, I'm thinking people would develop a tool to easily do ALL your searches like this automatically, so you don't have to type in #privacy each time)- rjonesx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Already done BoneyB - there is a greasemonkey script up on the site!
- heather714, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good luck! It sounds like an interesting new initiative..
- russvirante, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is this story buried?
- littledarkhorse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0support it folks, this is for everyone's good
- breezeman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How come RXJones (the submitter) his account has been removed, this is not too controversial for Digg is it? Since the post is still up.
- mcgeddon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hit and run? He is presumably Russ Jones of Virante. ("The entire #privacy campaign is generously funded, staffed, and marketed by Virante, Inc.")
- mcgeddon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'd be all for a campaign asking search engines to add a clear and simple privacy toggle, but demanding that the world adds a specifically chosen keyword to all searches just seems like egotism.
It's a ridiculous way to mark search queries as private - if a search engine doesn't use it then the user won't be explicitly told that the search was stored, and *surely* some jokers are going to comb their referrer logs for "#private" search referrals, and publish the list.
(More reasons why this is a massively misguided idea: http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2006/10/ignore_the_privacy_campaign_se.php )- russvirante, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1(1) Any privacy solution must balance effectiveness with accessibility. This one is very accessible, but not 100% effective (TOR on the other hand has low accessibility + high effectiveness)
(2) I don't see how egotism plays in here. Asking people do something so little as type in #privacy is far less invasive than requiring them to install 3rd party software like TOR.
(3) I doubt the 10 #privacy searces "some joker [found] combing their referrer logs" will be nearly as dangerous as the millions found in data leaks like those by AOL, or regularly available through public keyword selector tools
- russvirante, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1(1) Any privacy solution must balance effectiveness with accessibility. This one is very accessible, but not 100% effective (TOR on the other hand has low accessibility + high effectiveness)
- xgamerFR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1personaly , i don't care ,
google can use my query to do what ever they want - varhol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sometimes it is good not to be tracked. Just privacy. It is one of the basic human right. I am supporting this idea.
- solveforce1, on 11/30/2007, -0/+0Good idea, make it happen!
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