Chrome’s Omnibox to go anonymous in 24 hours
September 10, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
On the Google Blog, Sr Vice President of Operations, Urs Holzle, announced today that IP addresses logged by the Google Suggest feature in Chrome’s Omnibox will go anonymous “within about 24 hours”.
The change comes about in response to criticism and concerns raised about Google storing IP addresses and search terms of Chrome users.
Good move Google!
Seriously though, Google also says that they were only holding data from 2% of the users. This means it wasn’t holding 98% of the data it received. Still, it’s great that Google stood up and did the right thing.
Separately, Sean Carlson, Google’s Australia public affairs rep, reportedly said that Google doesn’t capture any more information than what is already being captures by Microsoft (IE), Mozilla (Firefox), and Apple (Safari).
That may be true or it may not be true, but now at least we have an official policy from Google which provides us with an alternative.
You can read Urs Holzle’s full post here.
Chris Keall at National Business Review New Zealand has more about this topic in his article here.
