[keithpeter]

Any measures to prevent a sinister variation on rickrolling [1]?

Are Microsoft planning to keep records of the IP addresses/MAC addresses triggering the popups?

I think Google's approach is more sensible. Most people leave Google's safe search defaults switched on anyway.

Edit: oops, does Google search default to safe settings on Windows these days? Just checked on Firefox/CentOS and found the safe settings unticked. This is a fresh install.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling

[DanBC]

I don't think MS are going to keep the IPs. There's no point just keeping a long list of IPs and times - they'd need to actively report those to police for the police to take action or not. It seems trivially easy to flood with bad data.

MS and Yahoo are implementing this in an effort to prevent MPs forcing regulation onto them. Any forced regulation will be stupid.

Google has said they're considering something similar.

I wish MPs would understand the vigorous efforts that search engines go to to find, remove, and report images of child sexual abuse.

[eksith]

I don't think Microsoft, Google etc... keep IP addresses specifically with regard to filtered searches, but they do keep logs of all searches/IPs for analytic purposes.

We should all be conscious of the fact that any amount of "web usage" generates logs somewhere. How much of your details end up in these logs depend on what your system/browser leaks and how much detail your ISP has on you.

[keithpeter]

Yes I am aware of server logs, and very unlikely to trigger one of these pop-ups as I use Google safe search all the time.

Rickrolling could be an issue though with a spammed link to a Bing search.