Ask's "Eraser" privacy feature is B.S.


	Ask's "Eraser" privacy feature is B.S.

enbar

12-31-2007 10:49 PM

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enbar says:

EPIC (the Electronic Privacy Information Center) has looked into the much-touted new "Eraser" feature of Ask.com's searches, in which it promises to erase user search information, and finds that it is actually, more or less, crap.

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Eraser, a privacy "feature." An initial flurry of press reports
indicated that the program would help safeguard online privacy. A more
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