Under pressure from regulators, policymakers and privacy advocates around the world, Google said late Monday that it would further tighten its data retention policy. In its official blog, the company said it would “anonymize” search records after 9 months, rather than the current 18 months.Google has always kept logs of all queries conducted on its search engine, along with IP addresses — digital identifiers linking those searches to specific computers and Internet browsers. Before last year, Google’s retained those logs indefinitely. But in March of 2007, the company said it would begin anonymizing those logs after 18 months. Other search companies quickly followed suit, unveiling their own, more privacy-friendly policies.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/google-tightens-data-retention-policy-again/Google moves to ease search privacy concerns [AFP]
Google has moved to calm privacy concerns, with plans to halve the time it keeps users’ web search data on record following pressure from European regulators.The Mountainview California-based company said on its official blog it was reducing the amount of time it keeps the search data associated with a user’s unique internet address to nine months from 18 months currently.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/09/2360246.htmGoogle to dump user data earlier
Google is to halve the amount of time it stores users’ personal search data in response to continued pressure from the EU over its privacy policy.The search giant has said it will anonymise identifiable IP addresses on its server logs after nine months.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7605801.stm
Google Tightens Data Retention Policy – Again
Under pressure from regulators, policymakers and privacy advocates around the world, Google said late Monday that it would further tighten its data retention policy. In its official blog, the company said it would “anonymize” search records after 9 months, rather than the current 18 months.