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A study group of the European Union will take the privacy administration of different missing machines under the magnifying glass. Before already the study group directed with success the arrows on Google.

The study group 'Article 29' led want to forget exist till for an almost as a counseling body for privacy affairs within the European Union. But an investigation to Google's bewaarbeleid for searchdata made clap inan end at that anonymity.

Last month the study group demanded more clarity of Google about the keeping up of logfiles with searchdata. The business had brought back the bewaartermijn then already of in principle infinity till a period of two year.

Yet always needlessly long, found Article 29. The group asked in a letter at Google clarification. That made obvious impression on Google, for this month made it the search engine known the bewaartermijn further back to screw until one and a half year.

Obvious genspireerd through this success let the study group now know that also the bewaarpolitiek of other missing machines painstakingly examined will become. Article 29 says there not by round which missing machines it goes. The candidates lie for the hand: Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search and Ask. com, perhaps completed with a handful of smaller players.

In the fall, the study group the position of affairs makes known. Article 29 has not are a pure advising task, the proposals binding.