{"id":14486,"date":"2010-01-19T15:12:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T20:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=14486"},"modified":"2010-01-19T15:12:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T20:12:02","slug":"whos-searching-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/whos-searching-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Searching Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20100119MS-Issues.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20100119MS-Issues.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"MS Issues\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14507\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t buy the whole premise that the user IP needs to be retained for any length of time, but at least someone is looking out for us.  Check out what Paul Meller from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9145739\/Microsoft_cuts_time_Bing_stores_some_user_data_to_six_months\"target=\"_dblank\">COMPUTERWORLD<\/a> has to say about  Bing, Google, and security.<\/p>\n<p>Could anything this pretty be a threat?  Surely not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20100119bing1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20100119bing1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bing\" width=\"497\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14487\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/microsoftontheissues.com\/cs\/blogs\/mscorp\/archive\/2010\/01\/18\/microsoft-advances-search-privacy-with-bing.aspx\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> the Microsoft release\/blog\/propaganda on the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20100119MS-Issues.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20100119MS-Issues.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"MS Issues\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14507\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s watching out for us?  Looks like it&#8217;s the EU putting on all the pressure.  Thanks guys, keep it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[909,910,119,911,125,912,913,914,226,257],"class_list":["post-14486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-pit-blog","tag-blog","tag-computerworld","tag-google","tag-length-of-time","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-release","tag-paul-meller","tag-premise","tag-security","tag-threat"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Who&#039;s Searching Who?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Who&#039;s watching out for us? 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