I have been wanting to really jump into the conversation, and can not hold back any longer. I have always had a problem with what information companies are collecting. While we might think about it as useless information, there are may ways information can be used. A while back, AOL released "the search histories of more than 650,000 of its users", and the result were shocking. It became a nightmare for AOL, and one of the major privacy scandals last year." The information that was collected, was shocking to say the least, and in more then one case people were able to track down the person who entered the search requests, even thou the file only listed searches by a unique ID number. You can read the story at
AOL's disturbing glimpse into users' lives | CNET News.com
Jason