[Foundation-l] Data retention

[Aryeh Gregor]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I've said in the past that I think 6 months would be a reasonable horizon
> for all private data -- it would give us plenty of data for operations,
> and would be a far shorter period than that used by the large commercial
> websites.

Not that far, for some: Google is cutting back to nine months soon.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/another-step-to-protect-user-privacy.html