Yet Another SE Privacy Article

[Brett_Tabke]

A slow news monday, brings us this article we have seen a dozen times before in one form or another:

[washingtonpost.com...]

Even after a document has been pulled off of a Web server, as was the case when MTV removed from its Web site a pre-Super Bowl press release promising "shocking moments" at the halftime show, documents often remain cached, or stored, in other search engines' computers so they can still be accessed.

[IanTurner]

Interesting article, though it does beg the question of how many of those instances of private data being indexed were accidents and how many were the result of deliberately compromised servers.

It is also not just an issue that affects the big organisations such as governments and banks, with the growing trend in social networking sites such as Orkut, Ecademy and others there are potential threats to everyones personal data. With Google being involved in Orkut it can probably prevent its own spiders and cache from compormising the data but there are other search engines out there doing similar things.

[Brett_Tabke]

Moral of the story is never to allow anyone to use your content (or illegal cache) without agreeing to your terms of service.