Monday, February 11, 2008

EU to act over online privacy

EU to act over online privacy

By Maija Palmer in London

Published: February 10 2008 22:05 | Last updated: February 10 2008 22:05

European privacy regulators are set to impose tighter restrictions on the way search engines such as those of Yahoo and Microsoft keep customer data.

Peter Schaar, Germany’s federal data protection commissioner and chairman of the Article 29 working party that advises the European Union on privacy policy, told the Financial Times that the search engines were keeping data too long.

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