Google Privacy Policy Updated

[Rox]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGghlPmebCY[/ame]

 

[Bretteo]

All i have seen over the web about this is 'google is evil' etc.. but to me this dosn't seem like such a big deal, all of these sites were gathering information independantly before, what's the big deal if they gather information together.

 

[cvrle77]

What I've heard right now, right here ,is that they do a better spy on us, to serve us more targetted ads, based on our habits. Meh

 

[Daniel]

I love the idea of stronger integration between Google's products.

 

[Bretteo]

Sure better targeted ads are an even better thing? who wants ads for something they are not in the slightest interested in?

 

[Rox]

What I've heard right now, right here ,is that they do a better spy on us, to serve us more targetted ads, based on our habits. Meh

its their business after all mate! they couldn't have gone so far (#1 search engine) without spying.

they call it innovation but we know what it is.

 

[vizoomer]

google... soon it'll be the company powering the world, knowing and having every information about every living being on the planet earth .. but well you can't do anything about it since it's a world power anyways

 

[Shahrukh]

Google is the best!

 

[Mr Happy]

Well this has some really good points. If you change you privacy or security settings now in Gmail they are changed for Google documents as well just like if you were to change you password for gmail it would change your Google documents email already. Makes sense. Also this is exactly what Facebook have in their developer platform. Everything you do through a Facebook app is under the one privacy policy just now like Google Products. Apple have the same thing already too for iTunes, iCloud, iPhone, iBooks, etc. It's just Google couldn't really do it before as they didn't have G+ which links the products together to allow this.

 

[Desi_Boy]

this is best move by them very tedious to fill all info about signing into / using there products

 

[downote]

google support sopa, acta or OPEN?

 

[Bretteo]

Google do not support any of them, considering they hosted a petition on their page a few days ago. This has nothing to with with SOPA, PiPA or any of them, this is a privacy policy change.

 

[Daniel]

People need to wake up and realize there is no "free" service. Google provides things that cost them substantial dollars to create and maintain but users do not directly pay for. Your information is what you trade for Google's services. No one is forced or coerced into using Google's services. There are alternatives out there that you can pay for and expect lock your privacy down.

It is no different than anything else. There is a restaurant in town I will not go to because their service is pitiful. I refuse to support their model with my dollars. If you don't like Google's practices, you are free to take your private information to another email/search/whatever provider.

Of course most of this is wasted thought, because many of those complaining about Google violating their privacy just updated their location from their phone, posted what they had for breakfast on Facebook, and tweeted details of their morning bowel movement.