Google Privacy Policy Updated

[downote]

google support sopa, acta or OPEN?

[Bretteo]

Google do not support any of them, considering they hosted a petition on their page a few days ago. This has nothing to with with SOPA, PiPA or any of them, this is a privacy policy change.

[Daniel]

People need to wake up and realize there is no "free" service. Google provides things that cost them substantial dollars to create and maintain but users do not directly pay for. Your information is what you trade for Google's services. No one is forced or coerced into using Google's services. There are alternatives out there that you can pay for and expect lock your privacy down.

It is no different than anything else. There is a restaurant in town I will not go to because their service is pitiful. I refuse to support their model with my dollars. If you don't like Google's practices, you are free to take your private information to another email/search/whatever provider.

Of course most of this is wasted thought, because many of those complaining about Google violating their privacy just updated their location from their phone, posted what they had for breakfast on Facebook, and tweeted details of their morning bowel movement.