[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