Day archives: September 9th, 2008

Google Announces Revised User Record Retention Policy

Official Google Blog: “we’re announcing a new logs retention policy: we’ll anonymize IP addresses on our server logs after 9 months. We’re significantly shortening our previous 18-month retention policy to address regulatory concerns and to take another step to improve privacy for our users.” Related: Google Response to the [EU] Article 29 Working Party Opinion …

Subjects: EU Data Protection, Privacy, Search Engines