Last week, Germany’s ruling parties – a coalition of SPD & CDU, with efforts in the digital area recently spearheaded by minister of interior Wolfgang Schäuble (pictured) – passed a bill for new data retention laws*.
Search engines have faced mounting scrutiny over their data retention and privacy practices, and Microsoft and Ask likely wish to head off potential increases in federal scrutiny.
Peter Fleischer, Google's top global privacy counsel, said data retention issues are of no concern to a European privacy watchdog group.
When the European Union confronted Google over its data retention policies, some people - including Google’s own global privacy counsel - wondered why Yahoo, Microsoft, and a number of other companies were left alone. Now it appears that the EU is going to take a look at them, after all.
Two years may be too long to keep search information without some kind of justification, according to the European Union.
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