It finally comes

The rule that asks online companies like Google to delete user's data after a maximum of 2 years.

According to BBC, a data protection group in EU has finally decided to voice their concerns over online users' privacy. Google appear as the first target, unsuprisingly. The gaint online search engine is believed to keep track of every single search queries via its services. Moreover, it technically has all the access to your Gmail, Google Calendar, blog ... Believe me, it knows you better than you know yourself.

It wouldn't become a big deal if it wasn't for the AOL scandal last August, that claimed accidentally leaking millions of records of user's searching activities. It is suprisingly easy for a determined attacker to identify the exact identity of a particular user from such seemingly junk data.

It is obvious that Google can keep track of your data forever. It's not the problem with storage anymore (it gives everyone at least 2GB of online storage for free, for crying out loud). So according to that EU group, Google could have to delete all these valuable information (for them) within 2 years. The problems are:

1. Will Google agree to do it or not ?

2. Should the law be passed, what effect would it have on other online services ? One thing for sure, though, all of our school emails that are more than 2 years old may also be deleted forever. The Support Team is more than happy to do that.