[ga] (Posting as Privacy Liason only) Search Sites Unveil Privacy Plans - Ask.com beats them all hands down, again.

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Well at least ASK beats them all hands down. However seems 
Google, Yahoo, and MS are laggards again.  Weak business 
policy that, on the part of MS, Yahoo and Google, but not 
unexpected.  Given the US and UK's military banning of
Google, Yahoo and MS's search facilities by its service
men and women, I feel confident that they will greatly
appreciate this effort, especially ASK's.  

  However this is an important step in the right direction, even
though the code/technology has been around for a number
of years.  It will help users and domain name holders from
being sniped, scamed, and be a significant help in protecting
their Identity and from ID theft and to a much greater degree
with ASK.COM.  Now if only ICANN will do that with Whois
and registrant data, we can take a bigger bite out of crime.  It
will also take some load off of law enforcement, which is greatly
needed.

See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6911527.stm

>From the article:

Action on privacy by the top four search sites. Google, Microsoft,
Yahoo, and Ask have introduced plans to reduce the data they store 
and how long they store it. From the article: "The rush to improve 
privacy policies was started by Google in March when it announced 
it would start deleting the final parts of the individual address 
it collects from each user's computer after 18 months... Microsoft 
is expected to make a similar announcement to separate the identifying 
address and other data from searches after 18 months. The information 
will be held for longer if users request it.  Yahoo said it would 
delete identifying addresses and cookies after 13 months... Ask is 
taking the most radical step by unveiling plans for a tool called 
AskEraser which, it claims, will let people tune whether data
is gathered about them on a search-by-search basis.

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