This entire thread led me back to:
Electronic Freedom Foundaton
and stuff I had not considered for over ten years:

Intel chips are imbedded with "ET phone home" that cannot be removed.

There are over one-hundred GOOD search engines beyond google....www.duckduckgo.com is one.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle
]small> Gotta go...time the chase ducks...I'm over due.