If you have not read an article on what happens to your search history, well you should.
http://www.news.com/FAQ-When-Google-is-not-your-friend/2100-1025_3-6034666.html?tag=nefd.top
is a good site for doing so. After I read it I was terrified but then reflected back to a class discussion about privacy and the digital world. America, along with the rest of the world, is moving to a more digitalized world every moment. Some places you can only buy certain items online, and how do you do that? With a credit card. Every purchase made on a credit card is stored in an information bank. Advertising is trying to work with the information to personally target "you" with advertisements that interest you according to previous purchases. Along with that may be Internet search records. Every item a person types in as a search is stored for unknown amounts of time, except AOL admitted to keeping there's for only 30 days.
I personally think this is all an invasion of privacy. If I had a weird fetish and googled it, there is a record kept on it. If I look up how to make drugs or bombs, there is a record that could potentially be used against me in a court case.
Example: I am in high school doing a report on marijuana for health class. I want to know how it is made and the process of getting weed on the streets. I search "how marijuana is made." I get the information and complete my project. Years later the Supreme Court starts a drug war and wants to know who makes marijuana. They can order a subpoena that then leads the court to my name. Simple search leads invasion of what I do in my personal time and possibly law issues.
Also on the Internet, there is a potential to have a battle over speed through provider. Companies that provide the availability to the Internet are starting to realize they have control. Could Google pay more money to have their site run at a faster rate than any other site to lead people to use Google? Could Google suffer because MSN bought the fastest speed so people are using them? All of this is in the air and could present many problems. For more information read: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/21/AR2006012100094.html
The article goes as far to say "Network neutrality is a solution in search of a problem."
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