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Google cookies to auto delete
23/07/07 - The world's largest search engine, Google, has announced that 'cookie' files stored on computers when an internet user visits a website are to be automatically deleted after two years. However if the user goes back onto a Google site within that two-year period the file's lifespan will be reset for another two years.Google uses cookies to find out its user's preferences for settings such as language; they are also used to track searches.
Google's cookies are currently scheduled to be deleted after 2038.
Cookies are used by all search engines and the majority of websites on the internet.
In a statement, Google's global privacy counsel, Peter Fleischer, said: "After listening to feedback from our users and from privacy advocates, we've concluded that it would be a good thing for privacy to significantly shorten the lifetime of our cookies."
Privacy advocates have been campaigning for greater control over the information that search engines keep about its users and how long it is kept for.
However Google advises that users do have the tools to delete cookies from their web browser at any time.
They have also implemented a number of measures in assuage its users that they are responsible with private data such as making the data it gathers from web searches anonymous.
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Published Date: 2007-07-23 09:27:37Subscribe to our RSS News feed:
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