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Author Topic: News Article: Google Cuts IP Retention Time In Half  (Read 3384 times)

Ehtyar

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News Article: Google Cuts IP Retention Time In Half
« on: September 13, 2008, 06:43 AM »
Google has cut the amount of time it will retain the IP address of a user in half.

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Under pressure from European regulators, Google is halving the amount of time its stores Internet Protocol addresses.

In a blog post, Google said it would keep IP addresses on its server logs for 9 months before anonymizing them, down from the 18 months it had previously stored the data.

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Re: News Article: Google Cuts IP Retention Time In Half
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2008, 03:07 PM »