NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years

Re:NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for ... by qb45 on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @01:00PM (#14411505)

And the likelihood of Google streaming a copy of all your URL bar keystrokes to the NSA archive is larger still. Or hell, even if they don't stream them live, they surely store them for analysis and can respond to subpoenas.

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Re:NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for ... by daxorid on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @01:10PM (#14411573)

Is there any evidence of this type of telemetry? Assuming you use it (or better, Chromium) as just a browser (e.g. don't log into it) behind your VPN, proxy, or overlay network of choice, I can't imagine this threat model being too bothersome.

And you're far more resistant to watering-hole attacks than you are with FF.

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Re:NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for ... by dandelion_lover on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @02:13PM (#14412165)

> Is there any evidence of this type of telemetry?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#User_tracking

> I can't imagine this threat model being too bothersome

Your entire browsing history reveals too much about you making your profile unique. Then any connection to your other data reveals your real name.

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