Google’s announcement that it is sharing more user data across its services has already raised the hackles of privacy advocates, technology writers and at least one national data-protection agency.
On Tuesday, the search giant announced that it was placing 60 of its Web services under a unified privacy policy that would allow the company to share data between any of those services. (Google Books, Google Wallet and Google Chrome are excluded due to different regulatory and technical issues.) Any user with a Google account — used to sign in to services such as Gmail, YouTube and personalized search — must agree to the policy. Users who don’t want to have their data shared have the option to close their accounts with Google.
Here's the skinny - your activity across all of Google's sites (and they own WAY more than you think) will be centralized for very targeted advertisements including unsolicited e-mail if you have a g-mail account. The intelligence is good enough that it will even determine if your searches for "Jaguar" is the beast, the car or the warrior. Google will then "tailor" your searches & advertisements to the result as well as sending you "suggestions" via your G-mail account. When you visit YouTube, guess what - Jaguar videos will be suggested.
No, you can't opt out.
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