Dutch search engine ignores IP addresses, by Out-Law.com via The Register (Jan 29)
Ixquick, a meta-search engine based in the Netherlands, will not collect the IP address on searches at all. Previously, the IP address was deleted at 48 hours.
"Google reduced the time that it kept addresses first to 18 months and then, last September, to nine months. Yahoo! announced in December that it would only retain the addresses for three months.
Search engines have said that they need to keep IP addresses to improve the usefulness, security and functionality of their services. Privacy watchdogs have said that the information should not be kept for longer than necessary to make the services work."
Posted by Gwen at February 1, 2009 12:38 PM