Thread: 2012 Google Privacy Policy

What about ask.com? There was an option of deleting search history in that engine previously. Ask.com also takes help from google.

How long we keep data about you
We anonymize your search queries after 18 months, unless government authorities request otherwise.
We retain all Ask account profile information and activity other than search queries (e.g. questions to the community and answers to community questions) until you close your account.
If you close your account, we retain your username and email address to prevent others from creating a profile using the same information.
We retain all your community questions, answers and comments indefinitely. While you remain registered with us, these postings are publicly attributed to you. If you terminate your account, we no longer display your username and avatar or photo with these postings.

Information from children under 13
We do not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under 13. If we determine that a user is under 13, we will immediately delete all information pertaining to that user.

Government authorities and legal rights
If requested or required by government authorities, such as law enforcement authorities, courts, or regulators, or otherwise to comply with the law, we may disclose any information we have about our users or modify other practices described in this policy, such as how long and in what form we keep information. We also may disclose information collected about you in order to exercise or protect legal rights or defend against legal claims.

http://www.ask.com/about/legal/privacy?o=0&l=dir

This just gave me an idea, what if we all just pretend to be 10 year olds on Google? Then when Google finds evidence that we are allegedly 10 year olds, they will have no option but to remove all data pertaining to ourselves!

But, I haven't seen any remarks on any Google data detainment policies regarding the age of the purported user and what would be done, there should be one though...

Anyway, I made this AutoIt script that is a kind of prank application that makes Google look like some scary big brother company, Source code is here if you don't like precompiled shit.


Autoit scripts can be decompiled with this.