New Browser Add-On Designed to Curb Google Data Collection

Records management is about protecting records. It's about knowing what should be available and to whom. Google is probably the world's largest repository of information, and not just the type you are looking for. They collect IP addresses, search history, browser type and more. Currently they are using the information for advertising purposes. Have you ever noticed that shortly after you look at a site, especially an eCommerce site, you see an ad for them? It's not coincidence. It's Google using your search history to better serve its customers, its advertisers.

A new project type, called GoogleSharing, is a Firefox add on that uses an anonymous proxy service that disguises your information by giving Google false information for applications which don't require log in.

Google's privacy FAQs state that it saves search engine data such as queries in order to improve the service and for the security of its systems.

In 2009, Google did introduce a dashboard that lets users have some control, but it doesn't show the user all of the information that might have been collected.