Google: Keep user data safe by letting us hoard it forever
Found on The Register on Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Privacy supremo Peter Fleischer told ComputerWorld in an interview that, "The unprecedented hacking... and the threat of similar such attacks in the future emphasized the importance of internal analysis of logs."
"We find it reprehensible that a company would throw away useful data when it holding it poses no privacy threat," Fleischer thundered.
I wouldn't mind keeping Fleischer's personal data, emails, medical records and search history. As long as I have it there is no privacy threat. But if someone breaks into my house, there will be a big oops. Of course that's based on the assumption that Fleischer trusts me; something I don't when it comes to Google.