We should all just drop it because if you want to keep growing, you’re going to have to step on some toes.

Android can’t come out soon enough.

“As the period prior to anonymization gets shorter, the added privacy benefits are less significant and the utility lost from the data grows. So, it’s difficult to find the perfect equilibrium between privacy on the one hand, and other factors, such as innovation and security, on the other.”

Nice economist-speak…Being the open minded empiricists that they are, they will be quite happy to produce a paper, publish it in a journal, and demonstrate the ’subpoptimal’ state of their search..

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TechCrunch – Amid growing scrutiny from government regulators in the U.S and Europe, Google is amending its privacy practices and keeping the IP addresses of consumers who do searches on Google for a shorter period of time. The dominant search engine w…

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Talk about privacy concerns…

Back to logs:

Log file retention concerns are trivial by comparison to the unfettered access to endpoint analytic techniques on the wire. All the DPI vendors working with ISP know this as well.

Besides, data reduction to an anonymous one way hash gives all the personalization and learning benefits without the pesky threat of business disruption due to LEA involvement.

Come on folks… assume for a moment that history is longer than a 12 months cycle.

Also, with respect to Chrome — at the end of the day, does Google obtain more information about a user if they use Chrome than if they use Firefox or IE? My guess is yes but I’ve not seen a definitive answer.

As Mr. McNealy stated years ago: “You have no privacy. Get over it.”