Marketplace Tech Report for Thursday, January 26, 2012

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Traditionally, Google has had separate privacy policies and separate terms of service for each site it operates. YouTube has one agreement, Google News might use another, Google+ something else. The idea behind the new privacy policy is that it will cover all of Google. That will mean the different parts of Google will be free to use information about you with each other. Also in this program, thoughts on why everything has to be so complicated on sites that are supposed to be so simple (i.e. Facebook).

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Google's new privacy policy means more sharing

But at least you get some control of your profile.
Posted In: Google, privacy, Facebook, YouTube, google+, Google News

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