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The massive amounts of data these companies collect -- which can include records of the searches you make, the health problems you research and the investments you monitor -- can be requested by government investigators and subpoenaed by your legal adversaries.
But this same information is generally not available to you.
The risk is that personal information that can be traced to you will at some point be provided to someone else, like the 20 million AOL searches that were published on the Internet at the beginning of August and are now causing random AOL users to admit that they looked for ``movies for dogs'' or ``welley shoes.''
The massive amounts of data these companies collect -- which can include records of the searches you make, the health problems you research and the investments you monitor -- can be requested by government investigators and subpoenaed by your legal adversaries.
But this same information is generally not available to you.
The risk is that personal information that can be traced to you will at some point be provided to someone else, like the 20 million AOL searches that were published on the Internet at the beginning of August and are now causing random AOL users to admit that they looked for ``movies for dogs'' or ``welley shoes.''
