Google has announced that they'll start making old data about your searches more anonymous after 18 months...
Uh, the TLF (vis techdirt) makes a good point about anonymity being a bit of a binary descriptor. Although in practice there are varying levels of anonymity, data that houses the capability to identify an individual does not meet the requirements of anonymity. As in the varying levels of reasonable security, you may have to do a bit of work to extract the information, but a truly secure location cannot be breached and truly anonymous data cannot be used to identify persons. So the modifier "more" in this case seems like a bit of a PR move, rather than actual technical specifications about the data they house. They don't want to give the impression that they're keeping identifiable information about you for two years, but they are. Just ask anyone who's Googled how to kill your spouse and then actually done it.
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