Gannon wrote:I dont know much about it, but why are you worried about them retaining your data or the data from this site?
99.99% of the data will be of no interest to them, but if the data collected helps prosecute people who are dealing child porn or plotting a terrorist attack, I dont see the issue.
If you aren't looking up illegal material, you have nothing to worry about either
Sorry , but this is very , very naive, and I mean this in a good way.
I happened to have a conversation on this topic with some friends of mine last night, who are quite senior and experienced police officers. They have already dealt with the problems that some badly drafted laws have provided to quite innocent people -
Lets say your computer is infected by a virus, this has happened to hundreds of thousands of people, lets say this gives remote control to the hacker ( this is all happened to thousands of people) , the hacker accesses a website and downloads a zip file, that contains 5000 porn images, 5 of which are child porn. They then post that to themselves from your computer. they then delete the file from your computer. However your metadata indicated that you have visited a kiddie porn site. Your computer disk is taken for examination, ( can happen at any airport for example - they don't need to know your metadata) Kiddie porn pictures are found within your disk ( partially-erased picture files).
you , without any shadow of a doubt, have a kiddie porn pictures on your machine , and those files were downloaded and disseminated from your machine. Here in Oz you are looking a imprisonment and being put on the sex offenders register.
Now take out the virus and the remote control, and just put in those annoying pop-up that plague those of the community that use internet explorer and "standard" "security" products. Those pop-ups can and do send your connection to very illegal sites, your meta data show that you have been there.
The discussion turned to the fact that those who actually have something to hide, are almost always prudent enough to hide their tracks and encode their computers, my friends are currently in the 9th month of waiting for the encoding on a particular laptop to be cracked, and they admit that even using cutting edge cracks , there is little chance of actually getting into this hard drive - and the "suspect" knows this.
also read these,
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/d ... y-metadata
http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articl ... 183553.htm
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/stu ... formation/
I think the above links may prove my point.
And I strongly suggest you clear your browser history and your temporary files after reading the above articles. Just because you actually DO have a paranoid multiple personality disorder does not meant "they" are not out to get both of you,
cheers
... ( whoever thinks of them needs to be shot ) 
