Kirby - 12:41 am on Apr 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

>Kirby, you see the difference between terabytes of raw logs that get rotated every x days and what Google is doing, right?

Yep. Im also not disagreeing with you. My point is similar to IncrediBILL. Privacy is a nostalgic thing of the past. Data mining is the key. Search engines just have the ability to take it to a level never seen outside of a government agency.

Do I fear that the Feds will show up tomorrow in Mt View wanting info? No, because they did that yesterday. Does it bother me that a commercial entity outside of the feds has as much info as they do? Yes, but its too late for that as well. As mentioned, they have been mining data for 5 years years. This is just an acknowledgement and commercialization of something that isnt new.

What is scary is that few care and are more interested in convenience than privacy, but perhaps they are just realists and I'm still tilting at windmills.