Google Overhauls Privacy Policy

Google is planning to overhaul its main privacy policy in an effort to make the document more readable and usable for normal people. In addition, Google also is eliminating privacy policies for some of its individual products and services, which it deemed redundant.

The shift by Google is a pretty clear acknowledgement by the company that privacy policies, like software license agreements, are generally unreadable, and therefore go unread by virtually all consumers. Google has come under sharp criticism from privacy advocates and some consumer groups for the amount of data that they collect on users and the ways in which the company uses that data.

The company said it is not making major changes to its main privacy policy, but is instead excising some of the more inscrutable parts to make it more useful, and also is bringing some of its individual products under the main policy.

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