on one reading, for example, the previous policy limited future changes to 'minor' ones; this is important because honestly., who ever revises their opinion on their use of a site based on their monitoring of a privacy policy? a minute fraction. Now, "and we expect most such changes will be minor" is gone.
Their freedom to hand the data to third parties is now much, much wider (for <processing> not the operation, improvement or development of services).
Search the page for 'sensitive' - this is vital. Look: before, google refused to collect or use it without your consent. Now, it can, without consent; it merely requires consent before sending it to third parties. Sensitive info is defined as 'related to confidential medical information, racial or ethnic origins, political or religious beliefs or sexuality and tied to personal information.'
They also now retain the right to store the content of the SMSses you send.
They no longer bind themselves by promising to store credit card data in encrypted form.
They no longer promise to provide services, like google search, that you do not need to provide personal information to use.
They allow themselves to burrow detail about privacy policies in myriad 'help files' or 'specific notices'.
on one reading, for example, the previous policy limited future changes to 'minor' ones; this is important because honestly., who ever revises their opinion on their use of a site based on their monitoring of a privacy policy? a minute fraction. Now, "and we expect most such changes will be minor" is gone.
Their freedom to hand the data to third parties is now much, much wider (for <processing> not the operation, improvement or development of services).
Search the page for 'sensitive' - this is vital. Look: before, google refused to collect or use it without your consent. Now, it can, without consent; it merely requires consent before sending it to third parties. Sensitive info is defined as 'related to confidential medical information, racial or ethnic origins, political or religious beliefs or sexuality and tied to personal information.'
They also now retain the right to store the content of the SMSses you send.
They no longer bind themselves by promising to store credit card data in encrypted form.
They no longer promise to provide services, like google search, that you do not need to provide personal information to use.
They allow themselves to burrow detail about privacy policies in myriad 'help files' or 'specific notices'.