Google CEO: AOL Breach Won't Happen Here

Exec says Google has security measures in place to prevent the release of user search histories.
IDG News Service
Thursday, August 10, 2006 07:00 AM PDT

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA -- The release of a database of online search histories that has gotten AOL into so much hot water could never happen at Google, CEO Eric Schmidt said this week.

"Our number one priority is the trust our users have in us," Schmidt said, speaking at a press conference during the Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference in San Jose, California. "The answer is, it won't happen."

Without going into details, Schmidt said there are security measures in place at Google that would prevent a company employee from releasing information about user search histories. "We have very sophisticated security plans for an attack on information," he said.

Schmidt added that Google is compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley and other legislation that mandates how information within the company can be shared, so there are strict controls that prevent someone from inside Google from leaking private information.

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126702/article.html#

but not that much.

Tor, Privoxy, CustomizeGoogle Firefox extension.

No problem.

at AOL, it was a planned and purposeful release of that data to "researchers" and carelessness afterwards. I have no reason to believe that Google is not allowing similar research on their searches.

Those Google research scientists are some cool dudes :D

http://www.norvig.com/hiring-president.html