Althought it seems that there is still a Google => Big Brother connection, there is news that the search engine giant is drawing lines in the sand for the sake of user privacy.

Google Inc. is adopting new privacy measures to make it more difficult to connect online search requests with the people making them — a thorny issue that provoked a showdown with the U.S. government last year.

... While Google will still retain reams of information about its users, the changes are supposed to lessen the chances that the company, a government agency or another party will be able to identify the people behind specific search requests...

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