Yahoo became the latest major Internet search provider to alter its user privacy policy Monday. Under the new plan, the company said, it will anonymize search histories after only 13 months, five months earlier than its search competitors at Google, Microsoft and Ask.com. “One of the core tenets of this company is the relationship and trust we have with our users. We are moving forward with a new approach to user search data,” Jim Cullen, a Yahoo spokesperson, told TechNewsWorld. The company has not set a specific date to roll out the new policy.
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Yahoo Yodels New Privacy Tune
Posted by: Walaika Haskins July 25, 2007 08:00 AMYahoo became the latest major Internet search provider to alter its user privacy policy Monday. Under the new plan, the company said, it will anonymize search histories after only 13 months, five months earlier than its search competitors at Google, Microsoft and Ask.com. “One of the core tenets of this company is the relationship and trust we have with our users. We are moving forward with a new approach to user search data,” Jim Cullen, a Yahoo spokesperson, told TechNewsWorld. The company has not set a specific date to roll out the new policy.