New Google Privacy Policy

From March 1, 2012, Google will change the Privacy Policy. The reason for this step is reasonable: to combine 60 additions to the Agreement for each product of the company into a single, fairly simple and clear agreement. The amended Agreement contains a new clause that seemed to me potentially dangerous, and in any case worthy of the attention of the community.

According to this clause, Google declares the following collection of information (my translation, literal):

Telephone logs, such as: your telephone number, telephone number of the called subscriber, numbers to forward, date and time of calls, duration of calls, routing information, SMS and call types.

I do not draw any conclusions and do not call for anything. According to the famous dictum, surveillance and paranoia correlate poorly with each other. I just want you to know about it , because continuing to use Google services after February 29, you automatically agree to the new rules. Personally, I don’t like the collection of detailed phone logs by a third party (they, along with the location services, invade the most intimate details of our life), others will consider it unimportant for the elusive joe, others will not call mistresses or competitors, and others do not use telephony at all with Android. Knowing the facts is important for everyone, and the conclusions are strictly individual.

The new Privacy Agreement is here .