Google limits data retention in compromise with EU

GOOGLE LIMITS DATA RETENTION IN COMPROMISE WITH EU
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Eric Auchard]
Google is scaling back how long it keeps personally identifiable data accumulated from its Web users, seeking to mollify a European Union watchdog that has questioned its privacy policies. The world's top provider of Web search services said late on Monday that it is ready to curtail the time it stores user data to a year-and-a-half, the low end of an 18 to 24 month period it had originally proposed to regulators in March. But Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy counsel said in a letter addressed to the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party in Brussels that any regulatory requirement to keep data for less than 18 months would undermine Google's services.
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN1144069820070612

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