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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Besides probably being illegal (and not profitable), you’d have to hack the companies that maintain the data (Google, Microsoft, major ISPs, etc), and that data would need to be attributable to a specific person.
This data is likely very well protected, and it’s probably not in a form that makes it immediately obvious or easy to determine whose is whose. There are various ways to obscure identities while still delivering targeted content to a specific person, by assigning unique IDs instead of names, and splitting this information across data stores, among other things.
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