In search of online privacy / Independent.co.uk, 9 April 2008
URL http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-in-search-of-online-privacy-806284.html
It will come as no surprise to anyone who has used the internet that online search engines retain a history of our previous searches and the identity of our computer. Indeed, it often makes our life easier to find that a page we have previously visited remembers us. But how long would most of us estimate that websites hold this information for? A day, perhaps? A week?