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Originally Posted by Damien
But for illegitimate uses Google still have a record of what they searched for. It makes no difference if the network traffic was encrypted. I think it's just paranoia, the more I think of it there is no gain because whenever you leave google the traffic is open again.
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In fairness, I don't think it's that useful for dodgy purposes either. If the police used network monitoring tools to determine someone was searching for something illegal, I am not sure any evidence gathered would be admissible.
I wonder if Google realised how much their image would be damaged by the WiFi admission, and wanted to implement something that would be (relatively) easy to implement and would appear to be preserving people's privacy.
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Originally Posted by Sirius
Because i don't want a Phorm type service installed at my ISP from potentially using my surfing data to make money or serve me adds
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As soon as you click a link to a non https site, these DPI systems would pick up what you are browsing. HTTPS protected searches would have little impact on DPI systems unless you never actually visit any HTTP sites.