As far as the policy goes, I have no issues with it. Google as company owns those services and provides them to us at no cash cost. I cant think of any corporation that has differing privacy policy's for their products, so I do not expect Goog to do so either. Google does use us as a form to make money, and for the benefits I get from using google, I am ok with that. Sure, google knows everything about me; they serve me better ads because of it.

Now, with the part that I disagree with. I disagree with the NSA, or other alphabet agency's having its hands in this data for the sake of prevention. I would be 100% ok with google's data mineing (for better ad presentation), if it couldn't be accessed by the government unless you were officially being investigated for a crime, warrant from a judge and all.

If you think about it, Google and facebook have the power to ruin your life, and save it. Say you commit no crime but you match a description. You will be brought in for questioning. If you have proof you were somewhere else during the time of the crime, you have been vindicated. However, if you are doing something illegal you will most definitely get caught.

Basically, the question is the government for me, not google. I have seen google deny government requests for records, and I have seen google deny the government when it asked to censor public unrest (police brutality) videos at Occupy, ect.

This new privacy policy does not talk about the government, its all about Google's use for the information. For now, I trust google still, to an extent. Hopefully they do not give in to the governments every wish and desire.

Originally posted by derst1988
As far as the policy goes, I have no issues with it. Google as company owns those services and provides them to us at no cash cost. I cant think of any corporation that has differing privacy policy's for their products, so I do not expect Goog to do so either. Google does use us as a form to make money, and for the benefits I get from using google, I am ok with that. Sure, google knows everything about me; they serve me better ads because of it.

Now, with the part that I disagree with. I disagree with the NSA, or other alphabet agency's having its hands in this data for the sake of prevention. I would be 100% ok with google's data mineing (for better ad presentation), if it couldn't be accessed by the government unless you were officially being investigated for a crime, warrant from a judge and all.

If you think about it, Google and facebook have the power to ruin your life, and save it. Say you commit no crime but you match a description. You will be brought in for questioning. If you have proof you were somewhere else during the time of the crime, you have been vindicated. However, if you are doing something illegal you will most
definitely get caught.

Basically, the question is the government for me, not google. I have seen google deny government requests for records, and I have seen google deny the government when it asked to censor public unrest (police brutality) videos at Occupy, ect.

This new privacy policy does not talk about the government, its all about Google's use for the information. For now, I trust google still, to an extent. Hopefully they do not give in to the governments every wish and desire.

I guess the problem is what is defined as "illegal"