Google Aims To Make Privacy Policies More Understandable
Google said Friday that it is "simplifying and updating" its privacy policies to make them more understandable for users.
The Internet giant said while most of its products and services are covered by Google's main privacy policy, some fall under supplemental invididual privacy policies. The company said it would delete 12 product-specific privacy policies.
"These changes are also in line with the way information is used between certain products--for example, since contacts are shared between services like Gmail, Talk, Calendar and Docs, it makes sense for those services to be governed by one privacy policy as well," Google Associate General Counsel Mike Yang said in a blog post.
Yang said the company also is cutting down on redundant provisions in its main Google privacy policy and rewriting others that are too legalistic "so people can understand them more easily."
Google's privacy practices made headlines Thursday after Consumer Watchdog, a frequent and vocal critic of the company, announced it had placed an animated ad in New York's Times Square promoting a video that mocks Google CEO Eric Schmidt and the company on the issue of privacy.
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