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Re:Our New Privacy Policy - You Own Your Data, and We Don't ... by roopeshv on Monday June 04, 2012 @02:02PM (#4065076)
if you don't agree, reply. don't downvote
Re:Our New Privacy Policy - You Own Your Data, and We Don't ... by koeselitz on Monday June 04, 2012 @02:44PM (#4065252)
Well - you made a blunt statement that seems at the very least unintuitive without backing it up at all. The part of this policy that sticks out at me in this regard is this:

>> We do not sell your data to advertisers or any third parties under any condition. We don't make any tools that let advertisers access or sell ads on your data. We don't track you. The only stats we track are aggregated usage data across the site, and we only use this information for our own purposes.

Doesn't Google "let advertisers... sell ads on your data"? Doesn't Google track you? Honestly, this seems very different from Google.

Re:Our New Privacy Policy - You Own Your Data, and We Don't ... by roopeshv on Monday June 04, 2012 @03:04PM (#4065337)
http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ read "information we share" section. google takes advertisers money to match, "not sell", the ads on your data.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/ read "Your Content in our Services" about who owns the data.

Google does have a very good TOS, protecting itself and also the users. The problem is no one has ever read their TOS properly. If you want to understand the TOS you have to read it in whole, and not just selected statements. I didn't have to back it up because anyone can read google's TOS because it is obvious in the face when it read it. Does that answer why I wrote what i wrote.

The reason I wrote that is because I have read their TOS, esp. since 50% of my digital life is in google mail and I had to be careful when I made that choice. I make choice not based on who's using "plain language/easy to read", but who's covering the most bases.

Re:Our New Privacy Policy - You Own Your Data, and We Don't ... by vnorby on Monday June 04, 2012 @03:10PM (#4065373)
TOS and Privacy Policy are not the same thing. Terms of Service' state what rules the user must follow on the service. Privacy Policies state what rules the company will follow with regards to user data.
Re:Our New Privacy Policy - You Own Your Data, and We Don't ... by roopeshv on Monday June 04, 2012 @03:15PM (#4065403)
their TOS refers to privacy policy. dont' read things in isolations and without context.