[gregparadee]

The information they gather from this could be the best thing ever for Google. They are now literally going to see how people go from site to site to site and direct ads and content to them based on that. Good move buisness wise Google.

[jeff18]

Comments like this are pretty common for every new product Google releases, but the fact remains that Google doesn't actually do this.

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html

In other words, your comment is anti-Google FUD.

[drtse4]

From your link : "we randomly sample a small subset for permanent storage." Even if anonymous that data is really valuable as it allows to identify traffic patterns. I don't see anything "evil" in collecting anonymized data.

[dhimes]

I wonder how hard is it to change their policy? Suppose some day the investors insist on monetizing this asset to its maximum potential. Can they just come up with a new privacy statement?

In order to stop them from doing that their change would have to be a clear criminal violation of something. Nobody would be able to sue them, and even getting them in a clear criminal violation would be tough (in the US anyway; recall the debacle of v. Microsoft).

[wgj]

The Google product manager responded to TechCrunch saying "no blocking, hijacking, or filtering" and responded on privacy with "Collected data includes IP address (up to 48 hours, to detect malicious behavior against the service), ISP information and geographic information (2 weeks each). The data is not correlated with your Google account in any way."

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/03/google-dns-opendns/