Following complaints by EU officials about threats to privacy, global search engine giant Google has moved to reduce the amount of time the company holds on to data about what users have searched for.
On Tuesday (9 September), Google announced that it would cut the length of time it retains search data from 18 months to nine.
The announcement is the company's second such reduction. Google originally maintained such records indefinitely, but limited data retention to 18 months in 2...
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