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.
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