Google Now Anonymizes Older Search Data

[HardOCP News]

Google now says that the company will make search data more anonymous after 18-24 months so that it can no longer be identified with individual users. Google says its engineers are already working on the technical details and they should have this change implemented within a year.

Today we're pleased to report a change in our privacy policy: Unless we're legally required to retain log data for longer, we will anonymize our server logs after a limited period of time. When we implement this policy change in the coming months, we will continue to keep server log data (so that we can improve Google's services and protect them from security and other abuses)—but will make this data much more anonymous, so that it can no longer be identified with individual users, after 18-24 months.