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Apparently Google provided police with IP addresses, but not names [1]. Assuming that Google did not provide any other account details, the usage of a VPN servi

by Borgz 3y ago

Apparently Google provided police with IP addresses, but not names [1]. Assuming that Google did not provide any other account details, the usage of a VPN service or Tor might be able to protect users in similar cases. [1] https://apnews.com/article/google-search-arson-suspects-colorado-4321aa7326bd96749f51b252d32ddf20 https://apnews.com/article/google-search-arson-suspects-colo...

perihelions 3y ago
Or just use a sensible search engine like Kagi, which doesn't associate search queries with users (it doesn't need to; it's not in the business of selling users to ad brokers). https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#why-trust https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#why-trust It's weird how easily we've acclimatized to creepy tech-company spying. For Google to snoop on your searches, record them, and permanently archive them for retrieval years in the future was a very creepy and ignominious business model, and it's embarrassing how readily we all went along with it, for the convenience.
radicaldreamer 3y ago
Or something like iCloud Private Relay
- deeth_starr_v 3y ago
  I’m sure apple keeps logs so you can be looked up for law enforcement
  - jshier 3y ago
    iCloud Private Relay is double blind, so even if they did, they can't match it to the egress address. User -> Apple -> (Cloudflare, Akamai, others) -> Public.
    - Tarq0n 3y ago
      Surely they'd have to give this up the moment they receive a FISA national security letter?
chatmasta 3y ago
Good luck reaching a Google search results page while browsing through Tor.
- ThePowerOfFuet 3y ago
  Just tried on Tor Browser, worked just fine.