Will our Google searches eventually be public?

[CoffeeCat]

Yesterday's "USA Today" had an interesting article about AOL customers' searches that
were accidentally made public, online. People were not identified by name, but many
searches could have revealed identities, because of the content of the searches.

Didn't the government force Google to hand over search logs a while back? If so,
that's scary. If not, I anticipate that BushCo will attempt to get those logs
until they have every last search in their possession.

I find this really troubling. I mean...I've searched old boyfriends names. I sure
don't want most of them know that. I've also Googled many family members--and many
of my search topics could easily give away my identity. This could be a real
invasion of privacy.

I've Googled loads of very personal searches (and no, nothing porn related), but
stuff that I would never want revealed.

Can you imagine your Google searches being made public?

Will it ever happen? :scared:

[NVMojo]

1. here's a story about google's position now

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126702/article.html#

[Ignoramus]

2. not the most reassuring comment

Saying "well we're really careful" doesn't quite cut it. It should point out how suspcious we should be of datamining by google, and gmail, because google could have an accident too, or a government could require the information to be turned over and we would never know. And in general, the practice makes it more likely that more people will do it.