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Google: More People Will Die From Swine Flu If We Cannot
Retain Search Data
Co-founder makes ridiculous assertions to justify sidestepping
privacy concerns
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Google has cited a possible influenza pandemic as a reason why
it should be allowed to permanently retain users' search data
without restrictions.
There is an ongoing debate within the European
Commission as to how long web companies should be able to keep
such data, with privacy advocates suggesting it be wiped after
six months.
However, Google co-founder Larry Page has suggested
that the company should not be hindered in retaining search
data, rather ludicrously suggesting that the more restrictions
there are on data retention, the "more likely we all are
to die".
"Our up-to-date influenza estimates may enable
public health officials and health professionals to better respond
to seasonal epidemics and pandemics," Page is reported
to have claimed at Google annual Zeitgeist conference in London.
He said Google's ability to plot and predict potential
pandemics would not be possible if the firm had to delete search
data after six months, the BBC
reports.
(Article continues below)
Sci-Tech website The
Register points out that Google has previously
boasted that its flu estimates are available each day because
Google search queries can be automatically counted very quickly.
Which raises a question: if the point of using
web searches to track disease is that the data is instantly
available, how does data that is more than six months old help,
let alone make us all less likely to die? The Register
asks.
Only hardened cynics (ahem) would suggest that
the push for long term retention of search data is intrinsically
tied to Google's mass profit making target advertising campaigns.
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