Our updated Privacy Policy takes effect today, March 1. As you use our products one thing will be clear: it’s the same Google experience tha...
Updating our privacy policies and terms of service
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In just over a month we will make some changes to our privacy policies and Google Terms of Service. This stuff matters, so we wanted to exp...
Tech tips that are Good to Know
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Does this person sound familiar? He can’t be bothered to type a password into his phone every time he wants to play a game of Angry Birds. W...
DatenDialog - Big Tent goes to Berlin
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In May, we held our first Big Tent conference near London, where we debated some of the hot issues relating to the Internet and society wit...
Greater choice for wireless access point owners
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From tagging a post with your location, to checking in to a restaurant, to simply finding out where you are, location-based services have be...
Changes to the open Internet in Kazakhstan
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(Cross-posted on the European Public Policy Blog and Public Policy Blog ) Update June 14, 7:40pm: After we published this post, the Kazakh...
Inside the Big Tent
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(Cross-posted from the European Public Policy Blog ) At our European Zeitgeist event, held annually near London, we traditionally erect a la...
An update on Buzz
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User trust really matters to Google. That’s why we try to be clear about what data we collect and how we use it—and to give people real cont...
Celebrating Data Privacy Day
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(Cross-posted on the Public Policy Blog ) It’s become a welcome tradition: Today is the fourth annual Data Privacy Day . Dozens of countries...
Creating stronger privacy controls inside Google
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(Cross-posted on the Public Policy and European Public Policy Blogs) In May we announced that we had mistakenly collected unencrypted WiF...
Trimming our privacy policies
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Long, complicated and lawyerly—that's what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason. Even taking into account that ...
An update on China
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Update July 9: We are very pleased that the government has renewed our ICP license and we look forward to continuing to provide web search ...
WiFi data collection: An update
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Update June 9, 2010: When we announced three weeks ago that we had mistakenly included code in our software that collected samples of paylo...
Happy half-birthday Dashboard! Six months in and 100,000 users a day
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Six months ago, we launched the Google Dashboard to help you view and control information stored in your Google Account. It’s organized ac...
Greater transparency around government requests
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Article 19 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights states that "everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this...
Our stand for digital due process
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The year was 1986. A gallon of gas cost 89 cents, Paul Simon’s Graceland won the Grammy for album of the year, and the federal Electronic C...