As I am sure many of you know I own http://www.cometquery.com, now the question I ask is can I record what users search for, nothing about them is stored along with this and no way to find out what else the user searchs for {cough aol}, would you find this unmoral and more importantly would this be legal?
Of cource you can do You must provide quality if you don't know waht they search how you do offer to them
Its not illegal or immoral to store data like this, you dont even necessarily need a privacy policy but it may be worth creating one so your visitors can find out exactly what information you store about them. You'd probably want to include all the standard information that your server logs will store aswell (IP, OS, Screen Res, etc)
It's not illegal or immoral in most circumstances. If you sold the information to a questionable company then it might be crossing the line but other than that... It's all how you use the information and your intent that is the deciding factor.
Well said. How else do you think Google and Yahoo came up with their thingies on their respective websites?
Not true. Google scans copywritten books without permission and doesn't get in trouble for it, you or I couldn't do the same
Just because a lot of people do something doesn't necessarily make it legal OR moral. In any case, I'd probably create a privacy policy if I were you, just to cover your bases.
And since this topic's been brought up, how do you feel about domain tasting in light of this? For those who might not be familiar: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=163871&highlight=tasting http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=146559&highlight=tasting http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=141736&highlight=tasting