[corn-you-copia] Google's New Privacy Policy Enables Ads to Follow You Everywhere
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Here's how to opt out of being tracked.
For years, Google did a solid job of protecting users' privacy. But, that
changed this summer when the company changed its privacy policy, inserting
new language in it that says browsing habits "may be" combined with what the
company learns from the use of Gmail and other products.
When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google
founder Sergey Brin said privacy would be the company's "number one priority
when we contemplate new kinds of advertising products," noted an article in
Propublica
<https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-person
ally-identifiable-web-tracking> .
For nearly a decade, Google upheld that promise, keeping DoubleClick's
massive database of web-browsing records separate by default from the names
and other personally identifiable information Google collects from Gmail,
YouTube, and other accounts.
In June, Google changed the default for new Google accounts, and prompted
existing users to opt in to the change.
Here is the key change
<https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/archive/20160325-20160628/> Google
made to its privacy policy:
We may combine personal information from one service with information,
including personal information, from other Google services
<https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/example/combine-personal-informatio
n.html> - for example to make it easier to share things with people you
know
<https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/example/to-make-it-easier-to-share.
html> . Depending on your account settings
<https://myaccount.google.com/?hl=en> , your activity on other sites and
apps
<https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/example/your-activity-on-other-site
s-and-apps.html> may be associated with your personal information in order
to improve Google's services and the ads delivered by Google.
The big-picture result of the change is that the DoubleClick ads following
people around on the web may now be customized based on their names and
other information Google knows. This is even more invasive - Google has the
capability to build complete portraits of users based on everything they
write in emails, every website they visit, and every search they conduct.
Google spokeswoman Andrea Faville emailed a statement
<https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3145771-Google-Statement.html> to
Propublica describing Google's change in privacy policy as an update to
adjust to the smartphone revolution.
"We updated our ads system, and the associated user controls, to match the
way people use Google today: across many different devices," Faville wrote.
She added that the change "is 100% optional - if users do not opt-in to
these changes, their Google experience will remain unchanged."
To opt-out of Google's tracking, visit the Activity controls
<https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols> on Google's My Account page
<https://myaccount.google.com/> and uncheck the box next to "Include Chrome
browsing history and activity from websites and apps that use Google
services." You can also delete past activity
<https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/465> from your account.
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