Google announced that in an effort to make Google privacy policies simpler and easier to read and understand, Google is uniting more than 60 privacy policies from its products. The biggest upshot is that by combining privacy policies, Google can treat you as a single individual across multiple Google products, when signed in to your Google account.
Google says the effort to make the privacy policy simpler, Google has got rid of over 60 different privacy policies and can treat you as a single user across all Google products to give a more intuitive Google experience.
Explaining the benefit of combining privacy policies, Google said
Our recently launched personal search feature is a good example of the cool things Google can do when we combine information across products. Our search box now gives you great answers not just from the web, but your personal stuff too. So if I search for restaurants in Munich, I might see Google+ posts or photos that people have shared with me, or that are in my albums. Today we can also do things like make it easy for you to read a memo from Google Docs right in your Gmail, or add someone from your Gmail contacts to a meeting in Google Calendar.
But there’s so much more that Google can do to help you by sharing more of your information with … well, you. We can make search better—figuring out what you really mean when you type in Apple, Jaguar or Pink. We can provide more relevant ads too. For example, it’s January, but maybe you’re not a gym person, so fitness ads aren’t that useful to you. We can provide reminders that you’re going to be late for a meeting based on your location, your calendar and an understanding of what the traffic is like that day. Or ensure that our spelling suggestions, even for your friends’ names, are accurate because you’ve typed them before. People still have to do way too much heavy lifting, and we want to do a better job of helping them out.
Google’s new privacy policy will be on effect from March 1. Learn more about the new policy here at http://www.google.com/policies/
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