Google Responding to Privacy International Report?

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Late yesterday, Google’s Peter Fleischer posted an announcement on their website explaining that Google would reduce the length of time searchers’ information remains on their servers from 24 to 18 months.  Fleischer stated that the move was in direct response to concerns from the Article 29 Working Party, an consortium of E.U. data protection authorities.

Fleischer left the door open to restore the time frame to 24 months if future data retention laws made such a move necessary.  The post did not mention Privacy International nor their June 9 report, titled in part "A Race to the Bottom," which referred to Google as "hostile to privacy."