Google Privacy Move Is Welcomed by EU
The European Union's top justice official welcomed a recent move by Google Inc. to cut the time it keeps users' search detais, but it said it should be trimmed even more. Jacques Barrot, the EU's justice and home affairs commissioner, said Google's decision this week to shorten its retention of data logs to nine months from 18 months was "a good step in the right direction." He added, however, that the time period should be trimmed further to six months. Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy adviser, said the company would work closely with EU data and privacy supervisors "to set the standar on respecting privacy."
Wall Street Journal; September 12, 2008