Tuesday, April 08, 2008

EU Report: Search Engine Activities Threat to Privacy

Leigh Phillips writes on EUobserver.com:

Search engines should not hold on to personal data at the end of six months due to privacy concerns, the European Commission's data protection watchdog has recommended in a report.

In a draft document issued following an extensive inquiry into data retention, the commission's advisory body on data protection said: "Search engine providers must delete or irreversibly anonymise personal data once they no longer serve the specified and legitimate purpose they were collected for."

More here.

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