Google's new privacy policy in breach of European data regulations

2/29/2012

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Google's new privacy policy in breach of European data regulations: Single privacy policy to cover all Google services 01 March 2012

Google's new one size fits all privacy policy may breach European data protection rules, claim privacy campaigners. 

Google has abandoned over 60 privacy policies used to cover its various products in favour of a single policy that it says is “shorter and easier to read.”

Read more: http://www.which.co.uk/news/2012/03/googles-new-privacy-policy-in-breach-of-european-data-regulations-280307/#ixzz1nomGG9bW

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How To Adjust Your Privacy Settings, Before Google's Big Shift

2/29/2012

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How To Adjust Your Privacy Settings, Before Google's Big Shift

 by Bill Chappell

February 29, 2012

"News that Google will place its dozens of services under one privacy policy — a change that also means the company will compile and collate each user's data from all those products — has some of its customers scrambling to restrict their privacy settings before the new policy goes into effect on March 1."

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Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy

2/29/2012

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Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy: published September 14, 2006

By Peter Eckersley, Seth Schoen, Kevin Bankston, and Derek Slater.

"Google, MSN Search, Yahoo!, AOL, and most other search engines collect and store records of your search queries. If these records are revealed to others, they can be embarrassing or even cause great harm. Would you want strangers to see searches that reference your online reading habits, medical history, finances, sexual orientation, or political affiliation?"

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/1
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