Google was on the hot seat as online privacy concerns swirled in Washington, D.C.[...] A group of lawmakers sent Google CEO Larry Page a letter requesting responses to several detailed questions about changes the company made to its privacy policies on January 24.
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The missive asked why Google made the changes, and requested responses to questions about what types of data the company will track and across which platforms, as well as how the data is protected and how it is used.
"While Google suggests that the purpose of this shift in policy is to make the consumer experience simpler, we want to make sure it does not make protecting consumer privacy more complicated," stated the letter. "We believe that consumers should have the ability to opt-out of data collection when they are not comfortable with a company's terms of service and that the ability to exercise that choice should be simple and straightforward."
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Google's answer on the call for more opt-out control: don't log in.
"If you are logged in, you can still edit or turn off your Search history, switch Gmail chat to 'off the record,' control the way Google tailors ads to your interests, use Incognito mode on Chrome, or use any of the other privacy tools we offer," noted [Betsy Masiello, Google's policy manager] Masiello in her post [on the Google Public Policy Blog]. She also stressed that Google isn't collecting any more data than it already did.
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Here's another good article about Google's defense of its privacy policy changes. IT makes sense to me. I don't think this is the big deal that Congress and the press are making it out to be. http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/01/31/google-explains-privacy-policy-changes-to-congress/?mod=djemlawblog_t
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