Galloping into the scene on its shining, white horse, Google has finally struck back at the privacy advocates that got just a little riled up by Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s outburst last week. And it takes the form… of a presentation!
Yes, in classic, classy, we’re-as-transparent-as-a-pane-of-glass-covered-in-morning-dew understatement, Google has prepared a lovely set of slides that outline their privacy policies and the data that’s collected. A large portion is also spent extolling their virtues — which is fair enough, considering how much awesome functionality Google and its apps have.
Amongst other juicy bits, did you know that Google has an Ads Preferences Manager? Once there you can opt out of those pervasive ‘interest-based’ ads that you’ve probably noticed while surfing the ‘net.
How about the slightly-scary-sounding Data Liberation Front? They exist for the sole purpose of ‘escaping Google’ — if you want to leave Gmail, they can tell you how. It reminds me a little of that ‘Google Opt-Out Village‘ Onion parody.
If you want more, you can either head over to Google Public Policy Blog, or you can watch the presentation itself after the break.
Google DOES care about your privacy originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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