Oh No! It's Too Long!

[mandy]

The head of an influential group of European Union privacy experts has said that the time Google's cookies reside on computers is "still too long", despite the search specialist cutting the lifespan of the software from over 30 years down to two.

The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, which advises the European Commission on matters of data protection, said on Friday that, considering users' search behaviour can be analysed through cookie monitoring, two years until auto-deletion is too long...

"Compared to the previous lifetime of 30 years, the period of two years seems to be short," Schaar wrote in an email. "But from a data-protection perspective, and considering the fact that the user's search behaviour is recorded and can be analysed for any purposes, this period is still too long."...

full article: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,10000...141,00.htm

[BellisimaJ.]

"But from a data-protection perspective, and considering the fact that the user's search behaviour is recorded and can be analysed for any purposes, this period is still too long.".

I agree. I love Google, and use damn near every one of their services. HOWEVER, I am starting to think that perhaps the benevolent giant is not so benevolent................