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It was only as recently as 1996 that Yahoo opened their search engine directory in Germany. Now, less than 15 years later, that is shutting down, as well as search directories in several other European countries. According to AnteZeta: Yahoo! has closed some of their European directories sometime this year – their Italian and German [...]

According to the most recent reports, the Eu is hamstringing its own campaign to reduce the amount of time search engine’s keep data. According to the EFF: The Directive 2006/24/EC, more widely known as the European Data Retention Directive, is an unpopular framework that compels telecommunications service providers operating in Europe to store all communications [...]

First it was Street View. Then China and the huge hubbub over censorship. Then the YouTube bullying video. Then came Google Buzz. Americans and UKers had a bit of a fit, effectively killing the app, but the real whammy came Monday, according to the Wall Street Journal: Privacy officials from 10 countries Monday sent Google [...]

Bing announced on the Bing Community blog: Today we sent a letter to the Article 29 Working Party notifying them of our intention to make a change to Bing’s data retention policy. Specifically, we are reducing the amount of time we store IP addresses from searchers to 6 months. Currently we keep that information for [...]

As controversy continues to swirl around Google, the EU is coming up with Plan B. The French in particular are supremely irritated at Google for devaluing their literary history; according to Reuters, when asked whether the ministers were in favor of the upcoming Google settlement, French Culture Minister Francois Mitterrand said he couldn’t comment directly [...]