I know it sounds kinda weird but with Russian hacking and just general internet shit, why haven’t more public figures been outed for their search history? In all the current day scandals I can totally see some celebrity or somebody in office getting outed for being into weird porn but that never really happens. I’m not saying I wish it did I just think its odd that, living in the internet age, there isn’t more of that kind of scandal. Is it that hard to get that kind of data?
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>Is it that hard to get that kind of data?
Yes.
Different countries have different laws, but in the European Union, for example, GDPR says data can only be stored for the shortest time possible.
Different jurisdictions within the EU interprets ‘shortest time’ differently, it could be a few weeks or a few months.
In my country, it is illegal for an ISP to store browsing history for more than 3 weeks. And the fines to not comply is staggering; they *start* at 2 million euros. *Per instance.*
What they do in the US, idk. But in Europe, storing data longer than absolutely neccessary for ensuring technical operation of the service + any accounting needs is illegal.
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