PC Pro's review of 2007: January - June
By Stuart Turton
Posted on 17 Dec 2007 at 18:10
Google continued to dominate headlines in June by admitting it could be in trouble if users lost confidence in its privacy controls. The comments foreshadowed a privacy arms race which saw all the major search companies reduce the amount of time they held personal data on users to 18 months, leading Ask to up the ante by offering its customers the option of deleting all their search queries.
Click here to read the concluding part of our 2007 news round-up covering July to December.
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