Google's User Search History Retention May Be Breaking EU Privacy Laws

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Google's User Search History Retention May Be Breaking EU Privacy Laws

05-27-2007, 08:47 AM,

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Google's User Search History Retention May Be Breaking EU Privacy Laws

Quote:Google has been told that it may be breaking European privacy laws by keeping people's search information on its servers for up to two years...

Google collects and stores data from each query. It holds information such as the search term itself, the unique address of the PC being used, known as the IP address, and details of how a user makes searches, such as the browser used and previous queries to Google.

That information can contain private data about a user, and could be used to build a detailed picture of the user's habits or lifestyle...

Privacy groups are concerned about how the data collected by Google, and other web firms, could be used to monitor people's online habits...

full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6692063.stm

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