Search Data Should Be Deleted After Six Months According to an EU Report
A recent report from a European Union privacy panel calls for Internet search engine providers, like Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL, to delete search data it collects from users after six months wherever their headquarters may be based. It emphasized that these search engines should abide by European data protection rules.
The report is expected to boil down to more stringent privacy policies. The EU is now revising data-protection rules.
Search engines collect the users’ IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, a set of unique numbers that identify individual computers. These sets of numbers can pinpoint a computer’s location or service provider, which obviously brews some security issues if stored permanently on a third-party system.
More details at ABCNews.
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