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A Privacy Reminder From Google

After signing in to my Google account, Google showed a new page called "a privacy reminder from Google." Heres Googles explanation: "To be consistent with data protection laws, were asking you to take a moment to review key points of Googles Privacy Policy. This is not about a change weve made - its just a chance to review the key points below."


The page shows a list of information processed when you use Google and a list of reasons why its processed. Google also explains how it uses data to improve user experience and lets you adjust some privacy controls (account history, ads settings, opt out of Google Analytics data collection). "These features work because of the information you choose to store with Google. But thats up to you. The controls in your Google Account let you decide what information you want Google to put to work on your behalf," informs Google.



The "other options" link at the bottom of the page shows some advanced features. "Youre in control of the information in your Google Account. You can edit or delete some or all of it. In other words, you can shape your experience how you like." Google lets you pause or delete your Web & App Activity, delete a Google service like Google+, YouTube or Gmail and even delete your whole Google account. "If you dont want Google to store your data at all, you can delete your entire Google Account. And you can download your data first and take it with you."

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A Renewal Reminder

Google has recently sent notifications about some domains that are about to expire. "Your registration of domain.com is about to expire. This means that users will no longer be able to access your website at that time."

The domains were registered using Google Domains, but they were set to automatically renew, so Googles message was confusing. Google realized that it was a mistake and sent another message:

"An automated email was sent out to you earlier in error with the subject Your domain registration is expiring. Please discard the erroneous message. Since your domain is set to auto-renew, your domain will be renewed on the expiration date as expected. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused."

Unfortunately for Google, the message was sent to 1664 people and all the email addresses were added to the "to" field, so everyone can see them. Whoops!



Update: Google sent a new message. "Yesterday, we sent an email to select Google Domains customers in which all recipients email addresses were visible in the To field. We sincerely apologize, and well be evaluating our customer email processes to prevent an accident like this from happening again. Thank you for your understanding."

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