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Search engines, like Google, Yahoo and MSN, are recording your IP-address and your queries for several months or even years. Companies concerned with statistical services or advertisement like Phorm, Doubleclick, Google Adwords or Google Analytics may record your IP-address or web sites visited...
Show more...Search engines, like Google, Yahoo and MSN, are recording your IP-address and your queries for several months or even years. Companies concerned with statistical services or advertisement like Phorm, Doubleclick, Google Adwords or Google Analytics may record your IP-address or web sites visited by you as well. These services are distributed of millions of web sites and may be even used by your Internet provider.

Your surfing-behaviour can be recorded almost completely
Big service providers, like Google and Microsoft, are able to merge both statistical and query data to a detailed profile of your surfing-behaviour. Depending on how much you are surfing the Web your behaviour may reveal a lot about your life, your interests, your businesses, your relations, and your problems.

Password- and identity-theft
If your are using unsecured Internet services your password, account information and address can be read out. Now, a third party would be able to order things in the Internet-shop using your data, as well. Besides, your e-mail-passwords could be intercepted and then your conversation by e-mail could be read along, until you are changing your passwords again.

Loss of confidential information
Your private messages can be intercepted and, later on, be used against you or your company. Are you writing a message to your wife and afterwards to your mistress? Are you sending business documents to a colleague which outsiders are not allowed to get?

Web sites of your competitors "are playing around" with you
Employees of competitors are able to observe your IP-address while you are visiting the web sites of them. Because of that they may present wrong or no information at all to you. They are even able to show a special career-page in order to headhunt your employees.

You might also get an advertisement call or advertisement e-mails.

Data-leaks bring your behaviour to the public
Due to a huge data-leak all queries using AOL were published in 2006. Thanks to digital reproduction everybody is able to reproduce the query history of all users now. People who are sick or mentally unstable could easily be unmasked for the public