Today in Search and Social - 09/09/2008
September 9, 2008 – 4:42 pm
by Dave Snyder
Big G took a step back from its drive towards becoming Big Brother today.
“Today, we’re announcing a new logs retention policy: we’ll anonymize IP addresses on our server logs after 9 months. We’re significantly shortening our previous 18-month retention policy to address regulatory concerns and to take another step to improve privacy for our users.”
This was in response to pressure being put on the company by the EU about how long they were holding personal data.
Andy Beal thinks the G unit should go one step further and ask users for their input on their Privacy Policy.
Eric Lander dropped an awesome post on the evil that Google has become in the eyes of many marketers.
So all in all today a lot of posts making Google look pretty ominous. This new look makes me wonder how that sleek young start up got old so fast.