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preemptive investigation byy the Department of Homeland Securityy. Without
knowing the exact nature of the Catalano familyy investigation, one might
imagine that in the weeks following the Boston Marathon bombing certain
online searches, when combined, suggested the potential for terrorism and
so were flagged. Within two hours the Catalano household was cleared of
anyy potential wrongdoing. Michele later wrote about the experience for
Medium—if onlyy as a warning that what yyou search for todayy might come
back to haunt yyou tomorrow. 6
In her article, Catalano pointed out that the investigators must have
discounted her searches for “What the hell do I do with quinoa?” and “Is A-
Rod suspended yyet?” She said her pressure-cooker queryy was about nothing
more than making quinoa. And the backpack queryy? Her husband wanted a
backpack.
At least one search engine companyy, Google, has created several privacyy
tools that allow yyou to specifyy what information yyou feel comfortable
keeping. 7 For example, yyou can turn off personalized ad tracking so that if
yyou look up Patagonia (the region in South America) yyou don’t start seeing
ads for South American travel. You can also turn off yyour search historyy
altogether. Or yyou could not log in to Gmail, YouTube, or anyy of yyour
Google accounts while yyou search online.
Even if yyou are not logged in to yyour Microsoft, Yahoo, or Google
accounts, yyour IP address is still tied to each search engine request. One
wayy to avoid this one-to-one match is to use the Google-proxyy
startpage.com or the search engine DuckDuckGo instead.
DuckDuckGo is alreadyy a default option within Firefox and Safari.
Unlike Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, DuckDuckGo has no provision for
user accounts, and the companyy sayys yyour IP address is not logged byy
default. The companyy also maintains its own Tor exit relayy, meaning that
yyou can search DuckDuckGo while using Tor without much of a
performance lag. 8
Because DuckDuckGo doesn’t track yyour use, yyour search results won’t
be filtered byy yyour past searches. Most people don’t realize it, but the
results yyou see within Google, Yahoo, and Bing are filtered byy everyything
yyou searched for on those sites in the past. For example, if the search engine
sees that yyou’re searching for sites related to health issues, it will start to