Google is adopting new privacy measures to make it more difficult to connect online search requests with the people making them -- a move it believes could prevent showdowns with the government over the data. The company believes it can provide more assurances of privacy by using depersonalized cookies, altering IP addresses and removing key pieces of identifying information from its system every 18 to 24 months.
March 15, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Google Inc. is adopting new privacy measures to make it more difficult to connect online search requests with the people making them — a move it believes could prevent showdowns with the government over the often sensitive data.
Under revisions announced late Wednesday, Google promised to wrap a cloak of anonymity around the vast amounts of information that the Mountain View, Calif.-based company regularly collects about its millions of users around the world.
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