"Search engine Yahoo! Inc will cut to three months the time it stores personal data gathered from Web surfing, making its retention policy the shortest among peers, the company said on Wednesday.
The company will "anonymize" the computer addresses of its users within three months in most cases, from a prior standard of 13 months.
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Link:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNewsMolt/idUKTRE4BG2VP20081217 |
Does it mean they erase the data after 3 months, or simply anonymize it within 3 months, and then continue to keep it forever in its new, unattributable-back-to-source state? |
Any information about that? |
