Google’s Privacy Policy: incoherent and does not meet the standards of the USA’s own Safe Harbor Principles
5 March 2012
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Google’s new combined Privacy Policy (March 2012) has been widely criticised by privacy professionals and Data Protection Authorities (in particular the CNIL – the French Data Protection Authority). However the reasons for this criticism have been made in general terms; the analysis I have published (see references) provides a detailed explanation. The analysis shows that Google’s Privacy Policy is incoherent because it uses overlapping terms. This makes the Policy difficult to follow or to understand what type of information the
