[lima]

Google is very unlikely to keep logs for so long.

[Faaak]

I wouldn't bet on that at all

[lima]

Why would they expose themselves to liability?

[kordlessagain]

There's no liability in keeping logs. They are useful for many things.

[lima]

Logs that can be tied to individual users are PII and very much a liability.

Their privacy policy states that IP addresses are anonymized after 9 months and cookies after 18 months[1].

[1]: https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention?hl=en-US

[sschueller]

I thought the US government decided it would be easier to pay tech giants to keep data longer than collecting it itself and storing it. That way they can just ask for it when they need it.

[rexpop]

What makes you think that?