EU to assess search engine’s data retention policies
by Jan Harris
The Article 29 Working Group, a panel of EU data protection official, are extending their investigation into search engines’ data retention policies.
The Working Group, led by Supervisor Peter Hustinx, targeted Google in May 2007 and now plans to write to a number of Google’s competitors to request details about the information they keep.
The investigation stems from concerns that search engines retain information about the people who use them for too long.
It is believed that the Group will now contact organisations such as Yahoo!, Lycos and Microsoft with the aim of assessing the effect search engines are having on EU citizens’ privacy.
The results of the investigation will be discussed at either the working group’s October or December meeting.
The group will issue a generic paper from which national data protection authorities can address players in their jurisdictions.
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