Data storage: the EU satisfied with Google 2007-06-15
An official person in charge for the European Union accomodated with enthusiasm the decision of Google to make anonymous the user data after 18 months of filing on the waiters of the number one of the search engines.
Yesterday, Google reacted vis-a-vis concerns of Privacy International and announced that it would make anonymous the data of the users 18 months after having carried out a research. Previously, this period could go up to 24 months. Free Frattini, European police chief, accomodated this news well:
“It is indeed a good stage. I appreciated the engagement of Google, not only in their way of conforming to our waitings in terms of protection of the private life, but especially on the reduction of the period of retention of the data. ”, T it has declared, not forgetting that the firm must answer other interrogations raised by the experts to yield completely with the European rules into force. One of them relates to the way in which Google uses the information collected by the cookies.
Peter Fleischer, lawyer general of Google, declared yesterday that the reduction in 18 months made it possible to the giant of the Web “to conform” to the rules of the Union. Google goes even further many Web sites which store these data in an indefinite way, it had added.
According to the number one of research on Internet, the user data allow him to better include/understand how they use the engine, to refine the relevance of the results and to be able to identify possible malintentionnées people tackling the Web site.
