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As many of you probably know, Google is watching us and stockpiling
data about our on-line activities. Here is a partial list of
information Google stockpiles (from a TechRepublic article) if you use
their services:
<ul class="unIndentedList">
<li> <a
href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/another-step-to-protect-user-privacy.html"
target="_blank">Search results</a> that you ask for and click on.</li>
<li> <a href="http://maps.google.com/" target="_blank">Directions</a>
to places that you query Google Maps for.</li>
<li> Using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Analytics"
target="_blank">Analytics</a>, Google receives/retains information on
visited Web sites.</li>
<li> <a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/help/privacy.html"
target="_blank">Gmail</a> membership allows Google to retain the
content of sent and received e-mail messages.</li>
<li> Enabling <a
href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/07/blue-circle-comes-to-your-desktop.html"
target="_blank">My Location</a>, enables Google to track your position
real-time.</li>
<li> If <a href="http://code.google.com/intl/en/speed/public-dns/"
target="_blank">Public DNS</a> is used, Google can retain your DNS
lookups.</li>
</ul>
<a href="http://www.thoughtcrime.org/about.html" target="_blank">Moxie
Marlinspike</a> has an app. called GoogleSharing that will anonymize
personal information, preventing Google from tracking movement on the
Internet. It intermingles Google user requests, and thus complicates
making any
association between the query and the requester’s personal
information. It intercepts Google requests, redirecting them to the
GoogleSharing proxy, which removes all identifying information,
replacing it with a surrogate identity. The request is then forwarded
to Google.<br>
<br>
Now, the interesting thing to me, considering you have to trust
Marlinspike more than Google to use this, is that he has made the <a
href="http://www.googlesharing.net/server/googleshare-0.4.tar.gz"
target="_blank">GoogleSharing software</a> available for download.
That way, you can create your own proxy. The GoogleSharing website has
a <a href="http://www.googlesharing.net/faq.html" target="_blank">FAQ
page</a> explaining how. Sounds like a GLLUG project to me. Topic for
tomorrow?????<br>
<br>
Stan<br>
<br>
Link to TechRepublic article:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=3032&tag=nl.e036">http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=3032&tag=nl.e036</a><br>
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