Europe to Tie the Hands of Google and Yahoo

Europe to Tie the Hands of Google and Yahoo April 7, 2008 — 02:00 PM PDT — by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins

If you thought American government and ‘electronic civil liberties groups’ had the monopoly on idiotic ideas on how to regulate online search and marketing, then you thought wrong. The BBC is today calling attention to the words of a European Commission advisory body on data protection, who reccomend that no personal data should be held about users by search engines for longer than six months.

This was recently the topic of discussion towards the end of the latest Elite News Podcast (mp3), in which

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