Eric Schmidt, in March 2010, knew about this when he said the following for users who wished their actions to be private: > But if you really need that kind of

Eric Schmidt, in March 2010, knew about this when he said the following for users who wished their actions to be private: > But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And [...] we're all subject, in the US, to the Patriot Act, and it is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities.