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by kordlessagain 2031 days ago
There's no liability in keeping logs. They are useful for many things.
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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