Search sites tackle privacy fears
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Top search engines from Microsoft, Yahoo and Ask say they will store less data about users and delete it sooner.
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Users can now access search engine from their cell phones.
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European data protection officials are expanding their examination of the impact search engines have on privacy.
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Anonymous data sets are an enormous boon for researchers, but the recent de-anonymization of Netflix customer data shows there are privacy risks as well. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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NEW YORK Oct. 18, 2004 - People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new privacy risk to worry about: Google&#39;s free new tool that indexes a PC&#39;s contents for quickly locating data.
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Human-powered search site morphs into search for mobile users.
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.
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By James Ashton  GOOGLE has seen the future - and it's personal. Undeterred by ongoing rows over privacy, Eric Schmidt, boss of the 80bn internet giant, proclaims 'personal search is the next phenomenon'.  By that he means services such as iGoogle, which is 'exploding in use'.
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Group seeks changes for more privacy during Web searches, like using an opt-in cookie instead of opt-out.
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European data protection officials have written to Google warning that the search giant may be in breach of E.U. privacy because of the way it retains data on individual searches.
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Six Ways To Keep Search History Private Questions are arising around the search engine world about the controversy of behavioral tracking by the search engines and privacy invasions such as the AOL Data leak and some governments demanding the search history or information kept secure by the major search engines of the world.  Most recently Brazil [...]
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A new tool seeks to make your searches more private by hiding them in plain sight. TrackMeNot periodically sends fake, innocuous queries to search engines, making it harder for someone to glean your actual search habits by reviewing the companies' logs that contain your queries.
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Worried that Google and other search sites know too much about you --- and that the feds can subpoena that data? Fear not -- we've got seven steps you can follow to keep your search history to yourself.
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Companies brace for privacy debate as potentially intrusive applications arrive faster than expected.
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Big companies exploring ways to verify identities online
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If you buy things on the Web--or even just browse--you could be at risk from prying eyes and sloppy security. Some people want to change that.
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Cutting-edge data mining and other intelligence tools could redefine privacy as we know it. A News.com special report.