“Microsoft will eliminate all data collected on Bing users after six months. The software giant said it sent a letter to the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, a collection of the EU’s top minds on data protection and privacy issues, today notifying it that the company would reduce the amount of time it stores IP addresses from searchers from 18 months to six months before deleting them.”
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Here’s hoping they’ll be able to offer the features/services they need to be viable and still be able to drop that all the way to 0.
Looks like they are following best practices for a monopoly in an area where they aren’t one.