Google Accounts, Privacy, and Our Clients

If you maintain any Google accounts (Google Apps, Gmail, YouTube, Google+, etc). Google will be changing their privacy policy to allow them to consolidate or share your web search history among their products.

We thought our clients and friends should be made aware of the possible impacts of this change.

From the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google’s other products. This protection was especially important because search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more. If you want to keep Google from combining your Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future.

Visit the link below to find out how to remove your existing web search history. We recommend that if you want to delete your web history, that you do it without delay.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect

Please get in touch if you have any questions or concerns that we can address.

Regards,

Mark & Tom at Technolutionary