New Privacy Policy: What Google Removed and Added

To their credit, Google provides detailed information with track changes against the previous version of their Privacy Policy.

But here's some interesting factoids from their newest Privacy Policy effective October 3, 2010.

REMOVED: At Google we recognize that privacy is important.

REMOVED:  The affiliated sites through which our services are offered may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.

REMOVED: Google only processes personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and/or the supplementary privacy notices for specific services.

REMOVED: When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the specific service privacy notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the supplementary service privacy notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.

REMOVED: We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.

REMOVED: Data integrity: Google processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice.

KEPT: We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent but REMOVED: and we expect most such changes will be minor.

ADDED: When you send and receive SMS messages to or from one of our services that provides SMS functionality, we may collect and maintain information associated with those messages, such as the phone number, the wireless carrier associated with the phone number, the content of the message, and the date and time of the transaction. We may use your email address to communicate with you about our services.

ADDED: You can use the Google Dashboard to review and control the information stored in your Google Account.

CAN YOU FIX IT?  Hardly.  But...you can download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. It lets you choose not to send information about your website visit to Google Analytics from pages (via the Analytics ga.js script). http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/eula.html?hl=en

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