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That's significantly longer than I would have expected. That's longer than the retention policy on my work emails, and this is data for ads...?
by al_borland 2y ago
That's significantly longer than I would have expected. That's longer than the retention policy on my work emails, and this is data for ads...?
- user3939382 2y agoPretty funny juxtaposed with their legal case where they were destroying evidence setting a company wide policy not to retain any communications.
- soraminazuki 2y agoThere should be a law requiring Google to not retain ads data any longer than the retention period for their own internal communications.
- vednig 2y agoThat is the duration some of us have been using web for, as a reference.
- zadokshi 2y agoDifferent countries have different laws around financial transaction data retention. US laws allow for audit up to 10 years, so they made it 11 to be safe yes?
- vednig 2y agoSome countries don't have any data regulation laws that allow for your data to be expunged. Since, Google is also an ISP in US saving that amount of data for 11 years would include a lot of data, more than anyone could think of, without having any control over it.
- doctorpangloss 2y agoCan your work emails be used to promote candidates in elections? Long ads data retention seems reasonable to me.
- singleshot_ 2y agoI litigate elections cases and I only have to keep client records for five years after termination of representation.
- vednig 2y agoWe are in 2024 someone needs to wake them up to Privacy standards