[HN Gopher] Google agrees to reform its data terms after German ...
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       Google agrees to reform its data terms after German antitrust
       intervention
        
       Author : Beggers1960
       Score  : 68 points
       Date   : 2023-10-05 15:52 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (techcrunch.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (techcrunch.com)
        
       | jeffbee wrote:
       | If I'm reading this correctly, someone at TechCrunch believes
       | that 60 separate privacy policies was better for users than one
       | unified policy? Is that a widespread opinion?
        
         | pgeorgi wrote:
         | It's possible to have a single privacy policy for a collection
         | of services and different applicability of it for each single
         | one, and for the interactions between them.
         | 
         | For example, some people might not mind Maps and Search data to
         | be combined (both for ads and for recommendations) but object
         | strongly against adding Photos or Mail into the mix.
         | 
         | As long as they had different privacy policies, users could
         | opt-in into each one individually and data sharing was a
         | difficult mess.
         | 
         | The single privacy policy fixed the mess (and made it easier
         | for users to understand what's going on, too: just one set of
         | rules), but removed some user choice while not giving a choice
         | at all for certain new data uses (the cross referencing parts).
        
         | martin_a wrote:
         | You're not reading that correctly. Google tried to get away
         | with one overly broad privacy policy, allowing them to combine
         | personal data from various sources/services, and that is not
         | allowed as per the decision.
        
       | havnagiggle wrote:
       | Seems like DMA is going to be doing good things for persons in
       | the EU Maybe others that are better informed are more
       | pessimistic? What are the penalties for non-compliance?
        
         | pgeorgi wrote:
         | This process predates DMA, and given that it's the cartel
         | office and not a data protection authority (although from what
         | I've heard, the German federal DPO was much in favor of this
         | effort), the angle was more about competition than privacy. The
         | quote in the article drives that home: "Google's competitors do
         | not have these data and are thus faced with serious competitive
         | disadvantages."
        
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