Google recently announced their new privacy policy which will go into effect on March 1, 2012. Here’s the overview of the new plan:

Effective March 1st, Google will be consolidating over 60 different privacy policies across Google properties and replacing them with one that they say is a lot shorter and easier to read. The new policy covers multiple products and features. Google says they are trying to create a simple and intuitive experience across all of Google.

How do you think this will effect end user privacy? Good? Bad?

Read it straight from Google on the official Google Blog.

This is the second entry of our series about the changes at Google and Larry Page are making a lot of changes as we head into 2012. Decide for yourself if they are still following the “Don’t be Evil” mantra. Read the first post in the series here: The New Google. Does “Don’t be Evil” [...]

In the last few months since Larry Page has taken the helm as CEO at Google he has been making a lot of changes to their services. They’ve been changing the look and feel of their various properties, even changing the functionality of their search pages. Larry has even said the company would “put more [...]

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