Comments on: Google adding search privacy protections

Privacy experts say the plan is a step in the right direction, but more could be done.

[talledega500]

Misleading headline

I dont think you can call that "adding protections".

Anyway the search logging thing was solved the first go around by http://www.blackboxsearch.com

Also for a full proxy http://www.mysecureisp.com
is easy to use.

[bob donut]

Not good enough

Instead of "anonymizing" part of the data, they need to throw it away altogether. As no _financial_ business is being conducted by these web searches, they are not required by law to retain any of it. If they believe that keeping data on logs helps them optimize their searching, they can do this with ALL identifying information removed from the get-go.

[Save_Me_from_my_Govt]

If it exists, the Gov't wants it...

I agree...there is -NO- business-need for capturing the information in the first place. And if the last 6 years of this Constitution-shredding administration is any indication, if data exists, they want it. It doesn't matter if they need it or not; it doesn't matter if the Bill of Rights says they need a court-order to get it--(they've already proven that is a sham with the recent disclosures about the abuses of the so-called Patriot-Act); they will want it... "just because"...

I'm not willing to sacrifice my Constitutional protections because "weird ol' Uncle Fred down the street might be looking at kiddie-porn sites". That's not enough...

Google (and the other search-engine companies) should stop collection the information altogether...and it should take 18-24 hours...not months.

[n3td3v]

F*** THE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

f*** the government agencies for using google as a tool to convict people.

**** the government for telling us there is a war on terror.

**** the government for telling us 9/11 wasn't an inside job.

yes 9/11 may not be an inside job but it was pretty f***ing convenient excuse for whats going on in the world right now.

google should never be a proxy tool for our corrupt government.

http://groups.google.com/group/n3td3v