HeyOverbey Jason Lee Overbey: Might Google get in trouble for placing their own websites 1st in results in user queries on related topics? Is it “wrong” if they do? http://on.wsj.com/ngKWN9
HeyOverbey Jason Lee Overbey: Google: “When possible, we notify users about requests for user data [and their search histories] that may affect them” http://reg.cx/1PJE
HeyOverbey Jason Lee Overbey: From July to December of 2010 Google received 4,601 demands from US-based agencies for information relating to users http://reg.cx/1PJE
HeyOverbey Jason Lee Overbey: Google turns over user data in 94% of US demands. http://reg.cx/1PJE
HeyOverbey Jason Lee Overbey: As of 2009 Google claimed 2 Billion searches per day. Every single one of which are stored completely.
HeyOverbey Jason Lee Overbey: Under Patriot Act intelligence agencies can access ur individual Google search queries that havnt been anonymized w/out oversight of a judge
HeyOverbey Jason Lee Overbey: It then behooves us to remember that there is no such thing as a pure Google search query. All searches on Google produce “biased” results.
HeyOverbey Jason Lee Overbey: In this way Google exercises a great deal of power over what information from the web is presented to us ea time we search. It is tailored.
HeyOverbey Jason Lee Overbey: We can sit side-by-side & enter exact same query into Google search & we will get different individualized results based on our past queries
HeyOverbey Jason Lee Overbey: Although after 18mos Google anonymizes your search queries & they dont link directly to you there’s still a traceable profile of ur searches
HeyOverbey Jason Lee Overbey: Google privacy policy states after 18mos your traceable search queries are “anonymized” or not linked to you individually tho still stored
HeyOverbeyJason Lee Overbey: Your queries entered in Google search engine being traceable to u is not protected under 4th Amend Search/Seizure b/c Google is a 3rd party
HeyOverbey Jason Lee Overbey: If you are not signed in to Google’s services every query you enter into their search engine is still traceable back to your IP address
HeyOverbey Jason Lee Overbey: If you are “signed in” then every query you enter into Google’s search engine is traceable back to you individually
HeyOverbey Jason Lee Overbey: Google has a record of every query ever entered into their search engine since their days at Stanford University.