Know your enemies. Collecting information on someone is not a crime. The goverment uses this information to find out who is against the United States. If you want to look up how to build bombs then I think the goverment should know. So if a bomb goes off in my city they have a list of people with the knowledge. You are all too into the movie senerio that the goverment is out to get you ie: (Track down) Kevin Mitnick story. Now im not saying the goverment isnt sneeky and doesnt do illegal things, like wiretapping or email tapping for no real reason. Im just saying they have our countries interests to protect. Sounds to me if you are against the goverment collecting data on you then you must have something to hide. Google collects data and so does all the other sites out there. Part of the agreement of you using there site is that they can collect this data and use it for what ever they use it for. Again if you are looking up kiddy porn and google collects that, expect a knock at your door (perv). Google is a great search engine and I have used it before google hit the big time. Google has gone more commercial in the past 5 years but it still brings up what I want to search for.

If you are that concearned about the information people are collecting on you then be aware as to what you give up. SSN, Address, EMail, Phone#, Names, Birthdates, and Account information are some of the main things you dont want to search for on the internet or give to sites that have no buisness knowing that information. Infact I wouldn't place any of that information on my computer let alone over the internet.

When I go to a site that asks for that information and I really want to access the infromation they offer, I use a fake name, address, email, and birthdate. Heck I even bull Sh*T on the amount of income I make. I call it garbage information. Next time they ask for a email give them [email protected], this is a real email site that can receive email. only thing is anyone can read the emails at this site so dont give your bank this email.

So basicly all im saying is security starts with you. If you dont want people knowing what you do and who you are, becareful of the information you give up.