Recently I came across this story by Todd Haselton that describes how the author located an obscure “purchases” page in his Google account settings and there found a methodical list of his online purchasing history, from third-party outside vendors, going back to 2o12. The upshot of the story was that: Google saves years of information […]
Surveillance
Which Presidential Candidate is the Anti-Surveillance Pro-Privacy Candidate Again? I Forgot.
As it happens, Yahoo has been scanning all inbound email on behalf of the US Government. Reuters news broke the story yesterday. “Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The […]
