Google Wants To Quickly Remove Personal Data

The Internet company Google bows to the pressure from and Verbraucherschützern data and wants the privacy of its users improve. At the same time the company is planning the digitization of old newspapers and wants the article to make available to consumers worldwide.

In future, the personal data of users connect to the popular Google search engine after nine months of anonymous so the company in its official blog. The deadline will be halved.

Call the consumer protection

Although it remained unclear when the shorter term memory is implemented. Google justified the step with the demands of Datenschützern particularly from the European Union, the privacy of Google users better protection. They call for long, the assignment of Internet data already sensitive after six months to delete.

Google saves every single request, through its search engine is made. So far, this data will be 18 months of the so-called IP address assigned to the individual user or computer identification. Microsoft also stores user data for 18 months. For Yahoo, the permanent storage on the other hand, 13 months. By March 2007, the Internet giant Google's IP addresses even permanently stored.

Search money worth

They shed light on the interests and personal relationships of Internet users. Google advertisers can target their ads. The faster now decided erasure of data is now protecting the privacy of users better, said Google. At the same time, but it also hampers innovation.

Digitalization of old newspapers

With the digitization of old newspapers, Google wants to newspaper articles for consumers worldwide made available on the Internet - of reports on the moon landings to grief ads. Like Google's product manager Punit Soni in the company's blog wrote, should billions of news pages with all kinds of reports and stories and scanned into the network asked.

The article should begin on Google's news archives wanted on the Internet and can be found. Soni that provides the digitized newspapers later in the general search engine Google.com involved. There should wholly appear, including photos - and advertising.