Google’s Unified Privacy Policy Takes Effect Today [VIDEO]

Google’s new privacy policy – the one allowing the company to combine data from all of its sites into a single profile – officially takes effect today. The new policy collapses 70 separate policy documents from various Google services into a single unit – which also happens to make it easier for Google to know things about you.

The company has argued that the policy will be easier for users to understand and that it won’t be collecting any new data as a result of the change. The truth of this remains to be seen.

Privacy advocates worry that linking a user’s web history, past searches and YouTube viewing history to the same online identity gives Google a problematic amount of information about its users.

Short of deleting your Google account entirely, there are few precautions available to users wanting to minimize what Google knows about you now – chiefly, by deleting your web history and two separate YouTube histories.

Open the pod bay doors.

[Source: Consumerist]

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