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Search Engines Warned Over Data
Breaking News:-
Search engines should delete personal data held about their users within six months, a European Commission advisory body on data protection has said.
The recommendation is likely to be accepted by the European Commission and could lead to a clash with search giants like Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Google and Yahoo anonymise user data after 18 months, while MSN does the same after 13 months.
The body said search companies were not clear enough on data protection.
Google said its privacy policy "strikes the right balance" between privacy, security and innovation.
Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy counsel, said in a statement: "Google takes privacy incredibly seriously; protecting our users' privacy is at the heart of all our products.
"It is the reason we were the first company to commit to anonymising our search logs, and also why we dramatically shortened our preference cookie lifetime."
In a statement Yahoo said it was reviewing the detaild of the body's recommendations.
"We remain committed to striking the right balance between protecting user privacy, providing the most compelling online experience, meeting our legal obligations and preventing fraud," the firm said.
Many search engines currently collect and store information from each search query, holding information about the search query itself, the unique PC address (known as an IP number), and details about how a user makes their searches, such as the web browser that is being used.
Users who create an account with a search engine hand over more data to the firms, including search history. Some search engines also enrich personal data held on their users with information from third parties.
The report from the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party said search engine providers had "insufficiently explained" why they were storing and processing personal data to their users.
It said "search engine providers must delete or irreversibly anonymise personal data once they no longer serve the specified and legitimate purpose they were collected for".
The report said the personal data of users should not be stored or processed "beyond providing search results" if the user had not created an account or registered with the search engine.
The advisory body also said it preferred search engines did not collect and use personal data to serve personalised adverts unless the user had consented and signed up to the service.
The body was set up to provide expert opinion to the European Commission and to make recommendations in the areas of personal data and privacy. The Commission usually adopts the recommendations the body makes.
The report also said search engines did not need to gather additional personal data, beyond the IP address of a machine being used, in order to deliver basic search results and advertisements.
It added: "Because many search engine providers mention many different purposes for the processing, it is not clear to what extent data are reprocessed for another purpose that is incompatible with the purpose for which they were originally collected."
It said search engines should not use personally identifiable data to improve their services or for accountancy purposes.
Personal data stored for security purposes should not also be used to improve services, the body recommended.
The report issued a set of obligations to search engines firms, including:
Search engines should get informed consent from users if they correlate personal data across different services, such as desktop search
Search engine providers must delete or anonymise (in an irreversible and efficient way) personal data once they are no longer necessary for the purpose for which they were collected
Personal data should not be held by search engines for longer than six months
In case search engine providers retain personal data longer than six months, they must demonstrate comprehensively that it is strictly necessary for the service
It is not necessary to collect additional personal data from individual users in order to be able to perform the service of delivering search results and advertisements
If search engine providers use cookies, their lifetime should be no longer than demonstrably necessary
Search engine providers must give users clear and intelligible information about their identity and location and about the data they intend to collect store or transmit, as well as the purpose for which they are collected
The report also warned that if search engines enriched personal data about users from third parties they could be breaking the law unless customers had given explicit consent.
It said users had the right to access, inspect and correct all the personal data about themselves held by search engines, including their profiles and search history.
Search engines should delete personal data held about their users within six months, a European Commission advisory body on data protection has said.
The recommendation is likely to be accepted by the European Commission and could lead to a clash with search giants like Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Google and Yahoo anonymise user data after 18 months, while MSN does the same after 13 months.
The body said search companies were not clear enough on data protection.
Google said its privacy policy "strikes the right balance" between privacy, security and innovation.
Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy counsel, said in a statement: "Google takes privacy incredibly seriously; protecting our users' privacy is at the heart of all our products.
"It is the reason we were the first company to commit to anonymising our search logs, and also why we dramatically shortened our preference cookie lifetime."
In a statement Yahoo said it was reviewing the detaild of the body's recommendations.
"We remain committed to striking the right balance between protecting user privacy, providing the most compelling online experience, meeting our legal obligations and preventing fraud," the firm said.
Many search engines currently collect and store information from each search query, holding information about the search query itself, the unique PC address (known as an IP number), and details about how a user makes their searches, such as the web browser that is being used.
Users who create an account with a search engine hand over more data to the firms, including search history. Some search engines also enrich personal data held on their users with information from third parties.
The report from the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party said search engine providers had "insufficiently explained" why they were storing and processing personal data to their users.
It said "search engine providers must delete or irreversibly anonymise personal data once they no longer serve the specified and legitimate purpose they were collected for".
The report said the personal data of users should not be stored or processed "beyond providing search results" if the user had not created an account or registered with the search engine.
The advisory body also said it preferred search engines did not collect and use personal data to serve personalised adverts unless the user had consented and signed up to the service.
The body was set up to provide expert opinion to the European Commission and to make recommendations in the areas of personal data and privacy. The Commission usually adopts the recommendations the body makes.
The report also said search engines did not need to gather additional personal data, beyond the IP address of a machine being used, in order to deliver basic search results and advertisements.
It added: "Because many search engine providers mention many different purposes for the processing, it is not clear to what extent data are reprocessed for another purpose that is incompatible with the purpose for which they were originally collected."
It said search engines should not use personally identifiable data to improve their services or for accountancy purposes.
Personal data stored for security purposes should not also be used to improve services, the body recommended.
The report issued a set of obligations to search engines firms, including:
Search engines should get informed consent from users if they correlate personal data across different services, such as desktop search
Search engine providers must delete or anonymise (in an irreversible and efficient way) personal data once they are no longer necessary for the purpose for which they were collected
Personal data should not be held by search engines for longer than six months
In case search engine providers retain personal data longer than six months, they must demonstrate comprehensively that it is strictly necessary for the service
It is not necessary to collect additional personal data from individual users in order to be able to perform the service of delivering search results and advertisements
If search engine providers use cookies, their lifetime should be no longer than demonstrably necessary
Search engine providers must give users clear and intelligible information about their identity and location and about the data they intend to collect store or transmit, as well as the purpose for which they are collected
The report also warned that if search engines enriched personal data about users from third parties they could be breaking the law unless customers had given explicit consent.
It said users had the right to access, inspect and correct all the personal data about themselves held by search engines, including their profiles and search history.
China vows to keep torch on track
Breaking News: -
Beijing has said "no force" can stop the Olympic flame relay, as it faces protests on the US leg of its journey.
Seven pro-Tibet demonstrators have already been arrested in San Francisco after tying anti-Chinese banners to the cables of the Golden Gate Bridge.
The flame is due to arrive in the city within hours, following anti-Chinese protests in Paris and London.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) members meeting in Beijing say they are to review future Olympic torch relays.
The flame was lit in Olympia, Greece, on 24 March and is being relayed by torch through 20 countries before being carried into the opening ceremony at the Beijing Games on 8 August.
But the torch had to be put out three times in Paris because of the protests.
The flame itself was kept alight in a safety lantern.
Demonstrators are protesting at China's security crackdown in Tibet after recent unrest against Chinese rule.
Tibetan exile groups say Chinese security forces killed dozens of protesters. Beijing says about 19 people were killed in rioting.
Chinese state TV said the protesters in London and Paris were a "handful of Tibetan separatists".
Condemning the disruption to the relay, Beijing Olympic organising committee spokesman Sun Weide told reporters the torch relay would continue as planned.
"No force can stop the torch relay of the Beijing Games," he said in Beijing.
But the International Olympic Commitee, currently holding a meeting in the Chinese capital, is to discuss whether torch relays should continue for future Games.
IOC press commission chief Kevan Gospar said that this year's 137,000km torch relay will continue as planned, "but certainly, the IOC executive board should review the torch relay programme for the future".
Swedish IOC member Gunilla Lindberg said the protests were "damaging the Olympic movement".
"Using the torch this way is almost a crime. This is the property of the IOC, it is not a Chinese torch."
Police in San Francisco, where the torch is due to be relayed on Wednesday, arrested seven people on Monday and charged them with conspiracy and causing a public nuisance.
Three climbers among them faced additional charges of trespassing.
They had scaled the bridge to perch 150 feet (46m) above traffic, attaching "Free Tibet" banners and a Tibetan flag.
One of them, Laurel Sutherlin, spoke by mobile phone to reporters.
"If the IOC [International Olympic Committee] allows the torch to proceed into Tibet they'll have blood on their hands," he said.
US Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called on President George W Bush to boycott the opening ceremony of the Olympics unless China improves its human rights record.
The Paris relay started to go wrong almost from the start, despite the presence of 3,000 police along the route.
It was cut short with the torch finally carried by bus to the relay's end point.
Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe cancelled a ceremony to welcome the torch relay after Green party activists hung a Tibetan flag and a black banner depicting the Olympic rings as handcuffs from the city hall.
Activists also hung Tibetan flags or black banners from several other Paris landmarks including the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame cathedral.
On Sunday, 37 people were arrested in London as protesters disrupted the torch relay there.
Beijing has said "no force" can stop the Olympic flame relay, as it faces protests on the US leg of its journey.
Seven pro-Tibet demonstrators have already been arrested in San Francisco after tying anti-Chinese banners to the cables of the Golden Gate Bridge.
The flame is due to arrive in the city within hours, following anti-Chinese protests in Paris and London.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) members meeting in Beijing say they are to review future Olympic torch relays.
The flame was lit in Olympia, Greece, on 24 March and is being relayed by torch through 20 countries before being carried into the opening ceremony at the Beijing Games on 8 August.
But the torch had to be put out three times in Paris because of the protests.
The flame itself was kept alight in a safety lantern.
Demonstrators are protesting at China's security crackdown in Tibet after recent unrest against Chinese rule.
Tibetan exile groups say Chinese security forces killed dozens of protesters. Beijing says about 19 people were killed in rioting.
Chinese state TV said the protesters in London and Paris were a "handful of Tibetan separatists".
Condemning the disruption to the relay, Beijing Olympic organising committee spokesman Sun Weide told reporters the torch relay would continue as planned.
"No force can stop the torch relay of the Beijing Games," he said in Beijing.
But the International Olympic Commitee, currently holding a meeting in the Chinese capital, is to discuss whether torch relays should continue for future Games.
IOC press commission chief Kevan Gospar said that this year's 137,000km torch relay will continue as planned, "but certainly, the IOC executive board should review the torch relay programme for the future".
Swedish IOC member Gunilla Lindberg said the protests were "damaging the Olympic movement".
"Using the torch this way is almost a crime. This is the property of the IOC, it is not a Chinese torch."
Police in San Francisco, where the torch is due to be relayed on Wednesday, arrested seven people on Monday and charged them with conspiracy and causing a public nuisance.
Three climbers among them faced additional charges of trespassing.
They had scaled the bridge to perch 150 feet (46m) above traffic, attaching "Free Tibet" banners and a Tibetan flag.
One of them, Laurel Sutherlin, spoke by mobile phone to reporters.
"If the IOC [International Olympic Committee] allows the torch to proceed into Tibet they'll have blood on their hands," he said.
US Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called on President George W Bush to boycott the opening ceremony of the Olympics unless China improves its human rights record.
The Paris relay started to go wrong almost from the start, despite the presence of 3,000 police along the route.
It was cut short with the torch finally carried by bus to the relay's end point.
Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe cancelled a ceremony to welcome the torch relay after Green party activists hung a Tibetan flag and a black banner depicting the Olympic rings as handcuffs from the city hall.
Activists also hung Tibetan flags or black banners from several other Paris landmarks including the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame cathedral.
On Sunday, 37 people were arrested in London as protesters disrupted the torch relay there.
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