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Google Renews Its Privacy/Profit Vows  

Google just summed up it’s “privacy principles” with five bullets:

  • Use information to provide our users with valuable products and services.
  • Develop products that reflect strong privacy standards and practices.
  • Make the collection of personal information transparent.
  • Give users meaningful choices to protect their privacy.
  • Be a responsible steward of the information we hold.

This is why treaties are written in French. We have no idea to whom those “products and services” are valuable. Google? Advertisers? Users? I’m sure they’d say all three.

Source: TechCrunch