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Search Engines Must Erase Data After Six Months |
EU Privacy Officials continue to regulate and create clear lines for internet companies and services.
The Article 29 Working Party of EU data protection authorities decided April 4 that search engines must delete personal data held about their users within a maximum of six months. However, exceptions could be possible if search engines come up with better arguments than they have presented to date, Alex Türk, the chairman of the group said April 8.
On April 4, the Working Party—set up under Article 29 of the EU Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC)—issued a report on search engines, "Opinion on data-protection issues related to search engines."
Türk said that during its April 3-4 meeting in Brussels, the working party had unanimously agreed that "We want the shortest retention period possible. We consider that the maximum retention period is six months."
The Working Party also demands better disclosure from search engines in order to state their purposes for retaining data, which purposes must be legitimate and pertinent.
Social Networking privacy is next on teh block.
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