11/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - The American IT giant, Microsoft, said on Tuesday 9 December that it was willing to reduce to 6 months, as opposed to 18 months today, the duration for storing certain private data of internet browsers, on condition that all its competitors do the same. This maximum 6 month storage period had been recommended in the spring by the “Article 29 Committee”, which brings together European data protection bodies. By way of comparison, Yahoo keeps data during 13...