EFF’s Search Engine Anti-Repression Pointers
17 02 2006Now _this_ is useful - 2 good solid things that could be done right now by SE’s to limit the ability of governments, (i.e. Beijing, The Bush Administration) to make you party to their immoral, and what should be illegal, acts:
1) Figure out a way of how to get by without cookies / user profiles / click-through redirects, (certainly more than a tad problematic re: relevance, and nukes the possibility of user-adaptive search, but certainly worth experimenting with and seeing how much actual effect it would have vs. the gain of actually _not having_ this kind of info, even if subpoenaed).
2) Set all activity to use SSL to make it more difficult to spy on info traffic, (’course, am sure each and every government will try to put up barriers to this use of SSL - Bush would say that being able to snoop this info is critical to finding someone who’s doing research on how to build a dirty bomb, Beijing to find someone who’s trying to figure out how best to promote self-determination for Taiwan and / or Hong Kong).
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A good episode of OnPoint talking about Internet Censorship and Surveillance, including whether Search Engines were colluding with repressive governments by filtering results in China, Iran and others, (including France! 
). The discussion started to turn a little dark toward the Search Engines being active and willing participants in such repression, so I called in and hit them up for the right answer, given the practices of even our own government post-9/11, (where any search engine can be subpoenaed covertly for query logs on anyone / everyone, and you’re not even allowed to disclose that such a request was made).
