Search Engines Find Stolen Identities from Information Week dares to go into the issue of how search engines can reveal personal details about people and perhaps aid in identity theft, leading off with how a Google search can bring up social security numbers, credit card details, bank accounts and so on. Fair play, it also makes it amply clear that other search engines can be used this way as well. It's familiar territory that other articles have covered before. This article does go into some new areas of wondering if search engines are liable for showing the info (doesn't seems...

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