If you have a Gmail or any other Google account, you might have already got a notice that indicates changes in company’s privacy policy. Most of us check the ‘I Agree’ box simply because we don’t have time to read piles of pages that talk about security terms we barely need to care. Or at least that’s what we think. However, the new Google privacy policy and shared endorsement have too many changes to ignore to say the least it shares your personal picture, reviews and comments.
According to Google the new changes in the privacy policy will take place on November 11 which will enable the search engine giant to endorse your private data. Before that happens users will have to come up will tricky ideas for what they put up on their Google profiles to avoid their personal information floating up on the millions of websites that Google put its ads on.
Google felt the urgency to sacrifice their users privacy to catch up with another social media giant Facebook that has been practicing these policies for quite a while now. Although Facebook doesn’t give an option to hide what you like on their social network Google does allow you to alter your privacy and opt out of ads. Another relief is that all users who are under the age of 18 are excluded from these changes.
The company says that the privacy changes will only apply to the users who have a Google + profile and those use the +1 share button on their Google plus network. Google claims that this shared endorsement will help the users get more out of their social profile but that might not be entirely true.
The churning advertisement pool is forcing social media giants to give more and more of personal information of users but the web giants cannot cross their limits. Facebook found itself in a lawsuit when a user sued the company for not putting up enough information on how the company is using their user’s personal information.
Although, since Google is much more experienced than younger Facebook we expect the search giant to have better plans to educate their users about these changes. And we anticipate a lot of people will be changing their profile pictures and editing content before November 11.
