New program designed to keep Web searches private: "Track Me Not"
This entry was posted on 9/1/2006 1:53 PM and is filed under Technology '06 - 01.
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By AmericasNewsToday.Org staff
TrackMeNot is a browser extension that protects web-searchers against surveillance and data-profiling. TrackMeNot runs as a low priority background task in the Firefox Browser that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines (AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and MSN). TrackMeNot is currently able to generate three million static querries and further versions will most likely generate the fake searches dynamically to further improve this method
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Additional reporting by Fox News.
