Will anybody benefit from googles refined privacy policy?

[hawkwind dave]

With Google making significant changes to their privacy policy by consolidating the lot in to one, will anybody benefit, or even notice?

[Clint1]

With Google making significant changes to their privacy policy by consolidating the lot in to one, will anybody benefit, or even notice?
Well it's hard not to "notice" it since I've been getting several emails on each Gmail account I have! I must have gotten at least 4 for each Gmail email address! Then they attack you with the login page and I know I have clicked that "Got it" link (or whatever it was) in order to get to the inbox several times for each account when I have to login.

What I want to know, is what's the big deal? Is this new privacy policy so different (and bad?) from the previous one that they feel the need to pound it into everyone? That should tell you something, it must be really different and suspect. So what are the changes exactly from what it was, to what it is now?

[LD]

IMO - although I haven't read the fine print, they wouldn't be doing this if they weren't trying to cover their ass.

[DesignsOnline]

Hey LD - Love your sig mate, the sign language in the dark, very good.....

[Clint1]

IMO - although I haven't read the fine print, they wouldn't be doing this if they weren't trying to cover their ass.
Exactly, that's my concern or my question. What has changed, how does it differ? It must be something big.

[DaveSawers]

Odd isn't it? All this fuss about a privacy policy nobody has read that is replacing a raft of older privacy policies nobody read either.

[weegillis]

"Subject to change without notice." They are covering the bases, all right. Easier now that only one document (per country) needs to be tweaked, not sixty. Not to mention only one privacy officer (per country) instead of sixty. They're saving money.