Google
plans to make all of the information it stores from user searches anonymous
after 18 to 24 months, according to an
announcement
on its official blog.
The search firm currently collects information such as the query itself, IP
addresses and cookie details, all of which is stored for as long as Google
thinks it is useful.
"Today we are pleased to report a change in our privacy policy. Unless we are
legally required to retain log data for longer, we will 'anonymise' our server
logs after a limited period of time," said the post from Peter Fleischer,
Google's European privacy counsel, and Nicole Wong, deputy general counsel.
"When we implement this policy change in the coming months, we will continue
to keep server log data (so that we can improve Google's services and protect
them from security and other abuses) but will make this data much more
anonymous, so that it can no longer be identified with individual users, after
18-24 months."
The two counsels said that Google had reached its decision after talking with
leading privacy stakeholders in Europe and the US.
The change is currently being worked on by Google engineers and will be
implemented "within a year's time".
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