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Google is not saying they are not recording queries. My guess is google saves up everything. And even if they are not doing anything with that data today (I do
by unionpivo 6y ago
Google is not saying they are not recording queries.
My guess is google saves up everything.
And even if they are not doing anything with that data today (I don't buy that), that can change tomorrow.
And Goolge is way past where I assume they have good intentions.
Do you have any proof Google isn't doing something creepy with that data it collects from DNS logs ?
- Avamander 6y agoI have a suspicion that they might not be able to store everything, but do make aggregated reports.
- hedora 6y agoThere are currently about 5 billion internet users. For each 12 TB they purchase for logging DNS queries per day, they could store a bit over 2KB per user. Assuming reasonable compression, they shouldn’t be spending more than 2-4B to log each request, so they can store 500-1000 queries per user. My guess is they could store everything, but choose to apply some aggregation.
- jart 6y agoThat's pretty much what Eric Schmidt talks about in The New Digital Age. He says that the technical requirements for building reliable systems at scale makes information tricky to impossible to delete. He also says the same thing you said, which is that the implication of data being permanent is that, even if privacy is respected by these companies today, future generations might hold the complete opposite values and could change the laws. What's to stop the cloud natives from making all your emails and search history public after you die? Is it really so difficult to believe, if we consider how common it is for the private letters of important historical figures to be published?