Broadband (probably again...)

[Dirk Koopman]

Nik Clayton wrote:
> On 3 April 2010 15:02, Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Mark Fowler wrote:
>>
>>  The solution to this is to use another DNS service - google's free
>>> 8.8.8.8 works for me.
>>>
>> It works for google's information systems too...
>>
> 
> http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html
> 
> <http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html>"We don't correlate or
> combine your information from the temporary or permanent logs with any other
> data that Google might have about your use of other services, such as data
> from Web Search and data from advertising on the Google content network. "
> 

And then I read the rest of it.

As someone who has run a DNS server of one kind or another for getting 
on for 15 years now (yes, I am that old), I struggle to see the 
justification for keeping that sort of information (paraphrasing 
slightly) for debugging and abuse analysis - "permanently".

Notwithstanding any paranoia that people might suffer from (it takes one 
to know one), I do wonder whether Google realises that, just lately, it 
has been shooting itself in the foot rather a lot. Maybe I am getting 
old and particularly cranky, but that "privacy" page gives me no warm 
feeling at all.