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3/14/2007

Google to purge some data after 18-24 months

Filed under: — adam @ 6:33 pm

Well, that’s a nice start. Good for them.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/google_to_anony.html

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/taking-steps-to-further-improve-our.html

http://216.239.57.110/blog_resources/google_log_retention_policy_faq.pdf

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2 Responses to “Google to purge some data after 18-24 months”

  1. J$ Says:
    March 23rd, 2007 at 1:27 am

    so they’re not totally evil after all

  2. adam Says:
    March 23rd, 2007 at 3:12 pm

    I don’t think I’ve ever said they’re totally evil. In fact, I think they’ve done a lot of good. I do think they’ve serially ignored valid privacy concerns, engaged in a lot of hypocrisy when it comes to copyright standards, privacy, and transparency, and constructed terms of use and privacy policies that are necessarily vague on important details.

    This seems like a good first step towards ameliorating that, but it’s just that – a first step. Time will tell if this turns into anything tangible.

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