Google’s cookies do not expire until 2038. All of Google’s properties (Google, Gmail, Orkut, Google Desktop, etc.) have deep-linked cookies that expire in 2038. Each Google cookie has a unique GUID. Every time you search, the search queries are tied back to your cookie. Google does not delete anything.

Agenda • Threats to Consumer Privacy • Government & Society • IT Vendors • Facebook • Google • Learn from the FTC • Case Studies in Failure • Success Stories

First Cloud Application? Voicemail – Similarities to clouds today – What have we learned from the history of Voicemail that might apply to clouds?

The numbers are run through public databases to determine whether anyone is using them to obtain credit. If not, they are offered for sale for a few hundred to several thousand dollars.

Raj Goel, CISSP, is an Oracle and Solaris expert and he has over 20 years of experience in software development, systems, networks, communications and security for the financial, banking, insurance, health care and pharmaceutical industries. Raj is a regular speaker on HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley,PCI-DSS Credit Card Security, Information Security and other technology and business issues, addressing […]

Cloud computing, an Internet-based development and use of computer technology typically involving the provision of dynamically scalable resources, is fast becoming a part of our daily lives. Whether one is checking webmail, backing up data online or collaborating on documents, it is hard to avoid putting information in the cloud. It is a cost-effective tool […]

Raj Goel, CISSP, is an Oracle and Solaris expert and he has over 22 years of experience in software development, systems, networks, communications and security for the financial, banking, insurance, health care and pharmaceutical industries. Raj is a regular speaker on HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley,PCI-DSS Credit Card Security, Information Security and other technology and business issues, addressing […]

Raj Goel, CISSP, is an Oracle and Solaris expert and he has over 22 years of experience in software development, systems, networks, communications and security for the financial, banking, insurance, health care and pharmaceutical industries. Raj is a regular speaker on HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley,PCI-DSS Credit Card Security, Information Security and other technology and business issues, addressing […]

Raj Goel, CISSP, is an Oracle and Solaris expert and he has over 22 years of experience in software development, systems, networks, communications and security for the financial, banking, insurance, health care and pharmaceutical industries.

It’s no secret that Google retains search data and metadata regarding searches—in fact, they’re quite open about it. What’s unsure though is the long-term threat to information security and privacy.