Privacy International Demands Apology from Google Over Smear Campaign

"The interim results which were published on the 9th Jun, places Google at the bottom of the privacy ranking league.

"Google is slated for many reasons relating to privacy, including some worrying ones such as personal user information being retained for an indefinite period of time but without the use having an option to delete it, and the recording of search strings and IP addresses of its users with no clear policy regarding when that data is deleted, thought to be between 18 and 24 months..."

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