FBI still wants two years of ISP Web logs

Largely at the behest of the European Union, search engines like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have cut their data retention periods over the last few years. Now, all those sensitive search queries you make will be anonymized in a matter of months—Yahoo will do so after 90 days , Microsoft will remove all IP addresses after six months , and Google anonymizes IP addresses after nine months. Europe has decided that six months should be the limit.

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FBI still wants two years of ISP Web logs

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Monday, February 8th, 2010 P2P News

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