EU on privacy, Amazon, Rambus/Nvidia
EU ruling on records
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo must limit the amount of time they keep Internet search records to six months or justify the need for longer storage periods, European Union privacy officials said. The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party on Wednesday wrote separate letters to inform the three companies that "their methods of making users' search data anonymous" continue to be in breach of EU data protection rules, the group said in an e-mailed statement. Mountain View-based Google, owner of the world's largest search engine, must shorten its data storage period to six months from nine months, the group wrote. Shortening the time that search engines keep such records may eat into advertising revenue. The companies rely on users' queries to target advertising more specifically.
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