EU Questions Google Privacy Policy

An anonymous reader writes "The BBC is running a piece noting that the EU is scrutinizing Google's privacy policy this month. The company's policy of keeping search information on their servers for up to two years may be violating EU privacy laws. A data protection group that advises the European Union has written to the search giant to express concerns. The EU has a wide range of privacy protections that set limits to what information corporations may collect and what they may or may not do with it. In the US on the other hand privacy laws generally cover government actions while the business sector remains largely unregulated. Is it perhaps time to follow the European example and extend privacy laws to include corporations?"

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[wizardforce]

google probably uses the search associations for ads or something- but at the rate that people use tor, cookie cullers etc. it seems to be a mute point.

At any rate, as all this is evolving, why not give Google the benefit of the doubt. I say wait and see if there's actually a problem.

they need to be watched just like any other company- just because their motto is do no evil [google.cn] doesnt mean they need to abide by that. especially if their laast stockholder vote says anything - do no evil just became do slightly less evil than otherwise.

Here's an idea

[chuckymonkey]

How about no one gives a shit. Nobody is being forced to use google if they don't want to that I'm aware of and I don't think that any government should really care all that much how long or if a company chooses to keep the data of its service's users. Really this is a non-issue to me.