And EPIC charges that most at odds with the privacy policy is a portion of Ask's terms of service that says it will start tracking an AskEraser user's searches again at the request of a law enforcement official--without notifying the user.

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Under normal conditions, this requires the user's computer to send a request to the host computer, which then sends a response back to the user.

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For sensitive data such as telephone numbers, postal and e-mail addresses, social security numbers or financial data, a site would have to explicitly request a user's permission to track and store the information.

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The user sends a request to the publisher's site.

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According to the report, Miami-Dade's online ballot request system had "very low" security, with no user-specific logins or passwords.

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