KXAN on Google’s Privacy Policy

by jonl on March 1, 2012

Austin’s KXAN interviewed EFF-Austin president Jon Lebkowsky for a story on Google’s consolidated privacy policy. They didn’t quite get our point that this is not really a huge change – they’ve just created a consolidated privacy policy that applies to most of their properties, but it’s not new that they track users and aggregate the data, and the way they use the data isn’t changing radically.

Google changing privacy policy: kxan.com

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