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From: Claudio Gutierrez <claudio.gutierrez.m@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: January 20, 2006 3:17:04 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Wired: How to Foil Search Engine Snoops

Maybe (surely) useful

How to Foil Search Engine Snoops
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70051-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_2

On Thursday, The Mercury News reported that the Justice Department has
subpoenaed search-engine records in its defense of the Child Online
Protection Act, or COPA. Google, whose corporate credo famously
includes the admonishment "Don't Be Evil," is fighting the request for
a week's worth of search engine queries. Other search engines have
already complied.

The government isn't asking for search engine users' identifying data
-- at least not yet. But for those worried about what companies or
federal investigators might do with such records in the future, here's
a primer on how search logs work, and how to avoid being writ large
within them.

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