As you surf the Internets and use the search engines to find things, the advertisers and web searching companies are tracking your use. They say they use "unique codes" to identify people that protect your privacy.
Really.
Given how eagerly the telecom companies rolled over when the Bush Administration told them "warrant? we doan got to cho you no steenkin' warrant," is there anyone who seriously believes that the companies tracking web use won't willingly hand over the data to the first suit-wearing, badge-toting stormtrooper from the FBI or the DHS who asks?
So maybe, each day, we should all run a few searches for things we don't care about or adamantly oppose, such as "tom delay hero" and "bush idealism" or "clinton honesty."
Don’t Be Such A Dummkopf
8 hours ago
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Tor. And turn off your cookies unless you absolutely need to enable them for a particular feature on a particular site (like, say, the Amazon.com shopping cart). At that point Amazon.com will be able to track that you used their shopping car, but duh, they already know that...
-- Badtux the Security Penguin
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