There was the auite recent case which highlighted this where Google refused
to provide statistics of usage to the Homelands Defence Agency (or
similar) - not individual user details.
Subsequent to that I noticed that everytime I used Google my email address
at the top that I was logged in.
I realised that this was because I have registered with Google for their
Google newsgroup archive. It turned out that unless I logged off that it
continued with my log on every time I used Google.
Does anyone know whether my logging on or logging off as per my screen makes
any difference to what is collected by Google?
A short time afterwards I read that Google had done a deal with the Chinese
government. I somehow didn't think that Google would be so robust with the
Chinese Government than they were with the American administration.
Nick Landau
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From: "Tim Trent" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 10:54 AM
Subject: [data-protection] US Government and Data Retention.
>I picked this up from
> http://www.complianceandprivacy.com/blogs/Bruce-Schneier-index.html which
> carries an interesting small selection of blogs. It sent me to the LA
> Times.http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-internet2jun02,0,622125.story?
> coll=la-home-headlines I suppose in the UK a "National Defence Exemption"
> might allow this.
>
> The questions in my mind are;
>
> Since an IP address is stored with (eg) google every time we search or
> even
> access the sit, is the IP address itself sufficient to be "Personal Data"
> Before you say "no, it's just a number" consider the many millions of
> gmail
> users who register their personal data with google, the yahoo users with
> yahoo, etc. Combining session information from an email session with the
> data and time of a search session could identify an individual with some
> precision.
>
> Am I just having Friday Paranoia, or could this be a legitimate threat to
> the privacy of individuals globally? And would it transgress the EC's
> directives? Does it have similarities to Air Passenger Data transfers in
> that they now should not happen after September 2006?
>
> <http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-internet2jun02,0,622125.story?coll=
> la-home-headlines>
>
>
>
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