Well, if this passes I see many stories like this one coming to light: http://techcrunch.com/2006/08/06/aol-proudly-releases-massive-amounts-of-user-search-dat

Well, if this passes I see many stories like this one coming to light: http://techcrunch.com/2006/08/06/aol-proudly-releases-massive-amounts-of-user-search-data/ http://techcrunch.com/2006/08/06/aol-proudly-releases-massiv... http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html?page... "Stripped of personally identifiable information", "consenting" [which is probably just a throwaway paragraph in the ToS/privacy policy that no one reads] and "liability protection" in the same bill. Yep. That will end well. I guess the good news is it is voluntary so, in theory, companies like DuckDuckGo can make it point they differentiate on from a company like Google. I'm not seeing that being a major selling point since most people don't understand that these "anonymity measures" are of limited value unless you can prevent people from connecting literally any dots. The problem with 0 dots to connect is it would be worthless from a security perspective since a given attack vector is already generally shared when its discovered. :/