Originally published February 21 2006
Microsoft submits to subpoena for search engine activity records
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
MSN Search Dev & Test General Manager Ken Ross confirmed reports that Microsoft complied with a Department of Justice subpoena to look at search activity on MSN.
Microsoft now acknowledges it complied with a controversial U.S. Department of Justice subpoena for a look at its MSN search customer activity.
The Microsoft admission, in a recent blog by MSN Search Dev & Test General Manager Ken Moss, assures MSN search users that "absolutely no personal data" changed hands.
Sources that knew of the situation outted Microsoft last week.
This collision of child privacy and porn, Internet search companies and the DOJ could impact corporate technology buyers, sellers and users.
In the blog, Moss said Microsoft gave the DOJ a random sample of pages from the MSN search index, which is what MSN Search customers plumb during their search inquiries.
More controversially, Microsoft also provided "some aggregated query logs that listed queries and how often they occurred."
Put another way, it's a look at the key words MSN search customers entered over an extended period of time.
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