Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

Re:Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert by lima on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @01:21PM (#25201280)

Google is very unlikely to keep logs for so long.

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Re:Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert by Faaak on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @03:11PM (#25202513)

I wouldn't bet on that at all

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Re:Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert by lima on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @04:16PM (#25214385)

Why would they expose themselves to liability?

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Re:Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert by kordlessagain on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:02PM (#25215649)

There's no liability in keeping logs. They are useful for many things.

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Re:Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert by lima on Thursday November 26, 2020 @08:25AM (#25219809)

Logs that can be tied to individual users are PII and very much a liability.

Their privacy policy states that IP addresses are anonymized after 9 months and cookies after 18 months[1].

[1]: https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention?hl=en-US

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Re:Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert by sschueller on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @05:07PM (#25203516)

I thought the US government decided it would be easier to pay tech giants to keep data longer than collecting it itself and storing it. That way they can just ask for it when they need it.

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Re:Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert by rexpop on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:44PM (#25205106)

What makes you think that?

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