In a bid assuage privacy advocates Google has announced that they plan to dump IP addresses of users earlier than previously announced.
From BBC News:
The search giant has said it will anonymise identifiable IP addresses on its server logs after nine months.
Google said respecting users’ privacy is “fundamental to earning and keeping their trust”.
In April, an EU advisory body recommended search engines should delete personal data within six months.
Google currently collects and stores information from each search query, holding information about the search query itself, the unique PC address (known as an IP number), and details about how a user makes their searches, such as the web browser that is being used.
Which is a good thing. I wouldn’t feel to comfortable knowing that the authorities might be aware I was searching for things like this:
the horror…the horror…