In the wake of an $8.5 million lawsuit settlement today, search giant Google made a gesture of good faith in the “caring about privacy” department, assuring users that they were taking steps in order to make the minutae of online privacy easier to understand.
“For example, we’re deleting a sentence that reads, ‘The affiliated sites through which our services are offered may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies,’ since it seems obvious that sites not owned by Google might have their own privacy policies.”
Perhaps this concerted movement towards being more transparent and simple with regards to privacy would also work well for Facebook who, like Google, is currently involved in various privacy scuffles.
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Authors: Alexia Tsotsis