Lately I've been becoming more aware of my online privacy because of instances like the hacks to major sites like Google, Google's recent debacle about retaining data from unsecured wifi connection, and Facebook's constant privacy changes or perhaps lack of privacy. Now I know that Google retains search results and the related IP address for 18 months as I saw on CNBC and I know Yahoo makes the search results and IP addresses no longer personally identifiable after 90 days. But I was curious about ISPs. I have Verizon and I can't find any info about how long they retain user data. Someone told me 60 to 90 days but they aren't affiliated with Verizon and Verizon hasn't seemed to make it publicly aware. So does anyone on DP have any idea about Verizon or what the ISP industry standard is for data retention. I know that the US Government was interested in making ISPs save the data for 2 years. Thanks for any info you might be able to provide.
I've searched for the past three days and posed this question to others and no one has any idea. Wonder why something so simple would be so hard to figure out.