Hey Roy, I was pretty surprised that tos;dr mentions "Google will share your personal information with other parties." I think, and hope, this isn't true and especially the wording 'will' makes the statement a pretty hard one.
For me, this is the most important part of any privacy statement. Google can gather large amounts of info, but if that info stays within Google and is used only for its services, I'm not particularly concerned. Unless there would be a security breach, of course, which I don't see coming any time soon. So, for tos;dr to have this wrong would be pretty serious. See these pages, for example: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/143031?hl=en Here they say they'll share info like your name and e-mailadres, but only after asking for your permission. This applies to Google Sign-in mostly, I guess. These two Mashable articles about the 2012 privacy policy update mention the aggregated user info, but say Google doesn't share your information with advertisers. Apparently they 'hacked' through the new document. They also mention the confidential info opt-in, but from a different perspective. They say you'd have to opt in for <i>Google</i> to get this information. http://mashable.com/2012/03/01/google-privacy-data-policy/ http://mashable.com/2012/01/25/google-privacy-update/ Personally, I don't think Google shares personal info with third parties, but rather lets them rely on the AdWords infrastructure. This would make sense, of course from a privacy perspective, but also from the client's perspective. Why try to filter through the info yourself when you can let Google do the work for you? This of course, is speculation. -- tosdr.org | twitter.com/tosdr | github.com/tosdr --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Terms of Service; Didn't Read" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tosdr. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
