Comment on Google quietly made a major privacy policy change — and barely anyone noticed

Google quietly made a major privacy policy change — and barely anyone noticed

REUTERS/Tony Gentile For almost 10 years, Google promised to protect users’ privacy from advertisers by keeping personally identifiable information about its users, gleaned from Gmail accounts and other Google services, separate from its subsidiary DoubleClick’s database of web-browsing records. But the company quietly updated its privacy policy in June to say that users’ activities on other sites “may be associated with your personal information,” ProPublica reported Friday.

 

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