[livre]

Google logs and stores forever every DNS request (and other info related to it like approximate geolocation), they also temporary store even more information that can identify you (like your IP address).

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy

Edit: let's suppose for a moment that Google is not evil, does not cooperate with the NSA and doesn't make bad use of that information. It's still a liability and any data leak will be a problem for anyone using Google's DNS. Some things are better not being logged at all or at least not permanently.

[hedora]

There’s also the CLOUD Act, which compels them to share the information with law enforcement in the US and abroad. (The latter don’t have to have any due process around the data requests they issue, unless they have other laws requiring it.)

[WillPostForFood]

stores forever every DNS request

That’s not what your link says.

The permanent logs are a sampling of the temporary logs

[livre]

I may have misinterpreted this part:

> The permanent logs are a sampling of the temporary logs where your IP address is removed and replaced by a city or region-level location.

What I understood from it is that they replace your IP address with an approximate location but keep the rest of the data. Can you explain me how you interpreted it?

[AlexandrB]

Wouldn't storing 98% of requests still be "a sampling"?