Google addressing privacy concerns with data retention limit
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The European Union’s top security official lauded Google Inc’s. decision to scale back how long it keeps personally identifiable data accumulated from its Web users as a step towards addressing privacy concerns.
The world’s top provider of Web search services said this week it was ready to curtail the time it stored user data to a year and a half, seeking to mollify an EU watchdog that has questioned its privacy policies. That was the low end of an 18- to 24-month period it had originally proposed to regulators in March. “I think it is indeed a good step,” EU Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini told a news conference in Luxembourg.
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