With Google’s recent privacy policy change of consolidating over 60 policies into just one, I couldn’t help but wonder how they could combine that many different policies into a single one.

Upon looking into it further, I realized it hardly seemed like it had anything to do with privacy.

Unless I changed my settings, they were going to track pretty much everything I did on the Internet. It’s almost a “let’s make this public” policy disguised as a privacy policy.

Google says the new privacy policy provides users with a more personalized web experience. The line between getting us the best results we need based on our searches and getting too much of our private information is getting blurred here.

I guess we are just supposed to trust that Google won’t give the information they gather to third parties. Not only that, but if Google is only giving us information they think would appeal to us most, then they’re censoring us, in a way, from exploring and developing new interests.

My messages, location and searches are my business, especially my email. If they have access to that, then they have access to not only my contact information, but also to the people’s contact information with whom I correspond.

Before we know it, Google will basically have a never-ending rolodex of everyone—name, email, phone number and a small biography all included.

It just seems a bit much. People can find the information they are looking for by themselves just as easily without Google keeping up with their every move.

Within minutes of reading the new policy, it didn’t take me long to decide I needed to fix my settings before they had my life story.

I don’t understand why Internet sites are getting so personal these days. Even Facebook groups things up and advertises based on people’s interests  – and not just with products, but with people, too. Facebook and Twitter both have boxes off to the side-recommending people you should friend/follow based on common interests

Everyone wants to know your business, now. And anytime you sign up for anything, you have to give every bit of contact information imaginable. Can we get a little privacy here?