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Google to Tighten Privacy - Personal Data to Be Cut From Archived Searches: Google said yesterday that it plans to alter its privacy policy and strip certain identifying information from archived Internet searches.
The change, which is to go into effect by the end of the year, was welcomed by privacy advocates who have challenged Google to respect its users' privacy as it pursues its goal of organizing the world's information. The new policy will affect only searches conducted from the Google home page, not from Google Calendar or correspondence sent through Google's Web e-mail service, Gmail.
Under the new policy, Google will continue to store search terms, but after 18 to 24 months it will remove the Internet protocol addresses, which can help identify the location of computers that conducted searches. Google will also erase cookies, which are bits of information that stay on computer hard drives after searches are conducted and might help an observer learn more about other Web sites visited by the person using the computer at a given time.
Google to make search logs anonymous - After 18-24 months, it's not about you anymore: The new policy, to be implemented within the next year, is intended to better protect users' privacy, two executives wrote in a Google Blog entry posted Wednesday.
Under the new policy, unless Google is legally required to retain them longer, server logs will still be retained but will be "anonymized" after 18 to 24 months so that they can't be identified with individual users, according to the blog entry.
