Google's New Privacy Policy Is Now in Effect - Check Out These 13 Privacy Controls

Weeks after adding Google plus Your World and other social layers to its product line, Google has officially updated its privacy policy.

The policy makers have combined 60 privacy policies into one document, streamlining the legal verbiage to better explain how the search engine collects, stores, and shares users’ personal information with third parties.  A comparison of past versions of the same policy shows what that looks like:

The biggest change to the policy in terms of user experience is that the company will now be able to track users on Google+, Gmail, and YouTube to further personalize the kinds of ads that they show them online.

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