When Google announced Wednesday that it will adopt new privacy measures designed to make it harder to connect searches with the individuals who request them, it promoted the move as a big step. Whereas last year the search engine giant went head-to-head with the U.S. Department of Justice over just this question when it was subpoenaed for a list of search requests — a federal judge ultimately decided it didn’t have to comply — the company now has announced that it will no longer save such identifying information at all beyond a certain point.
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Google’s Big Privacy Move – Close but No Cigar
Posted by: Katherine Noyes March 16, 2007 07:40 AMWhen Google announced Wednesday that it will adopt new privacy measures designed to make it harder to connect searches with the individuals who request them, it promoted the move as a big step. Whereas last year the search engine giant went head-to-head with the U.S. Department of Justice over just this question when it was subpoenaed for a list of search requests — a federal judge ultimately decided it didn’t have to comply — the company now has announced that it will no longer save such identifying information at all beyond a certain point.