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+Yahoo has [joined][3] Google, Microsoft and Ask in changing its privacy policy and shortening the amount of time it stores user data. Yahoo says it will make all search log data anonymous after 13 months, compared to Google's retention of 18 months.
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+One thing to keep in ming though is that Yahoo is applying the time-frame to log data whereas Google's policy applies to cookies and log data. Yahoo's cookie policy was not mentioned in today's announcement.
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+Yahoo has not said when the new policy will take effect, but the company hopes to roll it out by the end of the year.
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+Perhaps more meaningful for users though, is something that has been largely overlooked in the recent flurry of search engine privacy announcements -- OpenDNS, the free, alternative domain name server, has also changed its data retention policy.  
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+Kudos to Ryan Singel over at Treat Level for [noticing][2] that OpenDNS has said it will only log data for users without accounts for 48 hours, while users with accounts can delete them at will, view them, or direct the company to not log them at all. 
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+As Singel writes "What's important about that?  Well, your ISP is in a position to know as much about what you do online as any search engine, but as an industry they remain purposefully opaque about what data they monitor and how long they keep data."
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+If you're interested in bypassing your ISP in favor of OpenDNS, check out [Singel's earlier write up][1].
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+[1]: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/07/71345
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/07/under-scrutinty.html
+[3]: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9027924&source=rss_news50
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