Yahoo Limits Retention of Personal Data

Search engine Yahoo is to cut the time it stores personal data from 13 months to three.It is hoping its decision will provide a benchmark for industry. Currently Google stores data for nine months and Microsoft for six months.International data protection officials have been urging firms to do more to protect the data of users.Privacy advocates have welcomed the move and challenged rivals to go even farther.”I would challenge industry to move to 30 days across the board. People should demand that their information is expunged as rapidly as possible,” said Simon Davies, head of Privacy International.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7787846.stmYahoo Limits Retention of Personal Data
Yahoo said Wednesday that it would limit to 90 days the time it holds some personally identifiable information related to searches to address growing concerns from privacy advocates, policy makers and government regulators.Yahoo’s new data retention policy is the most restrictive among major search engines in the United States and will most likely put pressure on rivals like Google and Microsoft to shorten the time they keep information about their users.
http://nytimes.com/2008/12/18/technology/internet/18yahoo.html
http://iht.com/articles/2008/12/17/technology/18yahoo.phpYahoo to scrub personal data after three months [IDG]
Yahoo will anonymise most of the data it collects about people’s web searches after three months, a move that could put further pressure on competitors Google and Microsoft to do the same due to privacy concerns.Yahoo, which previously kept the data for 13 months, will now retain it for the least amount of time compared to its rivals.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/5CD9D807AF497725CC257522006DBA38
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/155610/.htmlYahoo outdoes Google, will scrub search logs after 90 days
Yahoo is trumpeting its commitment to privacy today after agreeing to anonymize its log files after 90 days. That moves it ahead of Google and Microsoft, and Congress has already taken notice.
arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081217-yahoo-outdoes-google-will-scrub-search-logs-after-90-days.html