Google spies and internet cat fights

This weeks readings.. I had a harder time following these readings, It might be the ADHD but I don't really want to blame it completly on that. The readings were harder to wrap my brain around than normal. Lets start with the first reading in this weeks series which deals with AT&T not wanting to be a neutral carrier any longer. I remain on the side of those fighting to keep carriers netural. If sites like AT&T start putting prices on certain sites for having more info or downloads, those prices are going to convert over to users... like me. I don't want to start paying more for Itunes! If the sites don't remain neutral users of the internet have their freedom violated again since certain sites that didn't have the money to compete with google would become blocked while those able to make the price cut woule become favored. In order for browing freedom to remain the way it is the carriers need to remain neutral as well. Alright enough of that nonsense the more important discovery I made in the readings is that google was is to get me. In the article it explains how google keeps a database of any one users search history. I was suprised and a little discomforted to learn this. I see the business pros to looking at what people search and create better user profiles and follow fraud, But I think it goes against all of our personal rights for the government to be able to pull up a search subject and a list of names connected to that information. I guess it is almost fair to say nothing on the web is private. Attorney's are now starting to use search engines as evidence in trials. If this is already happening it is just a start to more invasion of internet privacy. Who's to say Bush won't start using that google search of "ways to grow marajuana" to drug bust? A fair compromise would be for search engines such as google and yahoo to delete their history of users searches every two months, its a start at getting our privacy back. Looks like I will have to stop googling my own name... I don't want to look vain to the CIA.