Google to Adopt New Privacy Measures (Update)

March 14, 2007 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer Google to Adopt New Privacy Measures (AP)

A Google receptionist works at the front desk in the company\'s office in this Oct. 2, 2006, file photo in New York. Google announces a change in its privacy policy that will anonymize the data stockpiled from Internet Protocol addresses and cookies after an 18 to 24 month period. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

(AP) -- Google Inc. is adopting new privacy measures to make it more difficult to connect online search requests with the people making them - a thorny issue that provoked a showdown with the U.S. government last year.

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