| Author (Person) | Palmer, Maija |
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| Series Title | Financial Times |
| Series Details | 11.2.08 |
| Publication Date | 11/02/2008 |
| Content Type | News |
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European privacy regulators are set to impose tighter restrictions on the way search engines such as those of Yahoo and Microsoft keep customer data. Peter Schaar, Germany's federal data protection commissioner and chairman of the Article 29 working party that advises the European Union on privacy policy, told the Financial Times that the search engines were keeping data too long. In January 2010 Microsoft announced that part of 'our ongoing evaluation of Microsoftâs Internet search privacy practices, we are pleased to announce an important change in our data retention policy. We will delete the entire Internet Protocol address associated with search queries at six months rather than at 18 months. This new and significant step will be incorporated into our existing privacy practices, which already provide strong protections for Bing users'. |
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| Countries / Regions | Europe |
