Information Stored By Search Engines
Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Lashan Clarke
The European Commission is concerned about the amount of information that search engines store on people that use them.
Based on a report issued by Commission, it has found that at least 5-7 months of personal information is being held by search engines.
This calls into question just how secure they really are.
The European Commission has also questioned why data for anyone using search engines has been stored, and what happens to the data after it has been collected.
The Commission is calling on search engines to first seek user’s permission to collect and store data, and implement other recommendations listed in the report.
Currently data is stored from between one to two years.
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