Wednesday, February 1st 2012
Microsoft Cashes in on Google One-Policy Paranoia in Newspaper Ad
Later this year, Google will adopt a single privacy-policy system for all its services. Some of Google's most popular services, as some might recall, are built from acquisitions of other equally genius start-ups as itself (eg: YouTube), many of these services were allowed to retain the essential part of their old privacy policies. The unified policy, effective March 1, 2012, allows sharing of usage statistics between services, to provide a user experience that's consistent between all its services. It doesn't sound harmful enough, yet it has generated public paranoia that it would, in some way, make Google more invasive on people's privacy than it already is, by, you know...owning YouTube?
Microsoft was quick put on an angel's robe and cash in on this paranoia. In a newspaper ad (first image below is down-scaled, the second is original), Microsoft talked about how Google's One Policy, One Google, One Experience is designed to be invasive to people's privacy, and how it allows Google to connect the dots between everything you do or say, across Google's various services. Fair enough, but what should have concluded as a PSA by Microsoft, ended up in being an advertisement for its own portfolio of services that are "better for users", as they're not as invasive as Google's.
A video detailing Google's One Policy update (by Google), follows.
Sources:
The Official Microsoft Blog, The Verge
Microsoft was quick put on an angel's robe and cash in on this paranoia. In a newspaper ad (first image below is down-scaled, the second is original), Microsoft talked about how Google's One Policy, One Google, One Experience is designed to be invasive to people's privacy, and how it allows Google to connect the dots between everything you do or say, across Google's various services. Fair enough, but what should have concluded as a PSA by Microsoft, ended up in being an advertisement for its own portfolio of services that are "better for users", as they're not as invasive as Google's.
20 Comments on Microsoft Cashes in on Google One-Policy Paranoia in Newspaper Ad
Who should I use??? :wtf:
Soon we will all be zombies under their doing! DOOM! I SAYS! DOOOOOM!!!
in a hundred years or so, i bet anything that it will be as common practice as circumcision is today, to get chipped as a baby where everyone is mentally accessed to the internet. everyone will get so gradually accustomed to such a thing along with benefits that only the old geezers will care...much like you hear them rant bout such old way things now.
But you are good at making the windows operating system, that runs firefox, that I view google search, mail and docs on, sorry but I call that fair and it works so well for me, plus every company shares my screen and none is a monopoly :)
Now they can do anything they want without asking.
Its a simple unified policy for all services but they still use "in some services" inside it.
Private stuff remains private under their new policy.
Content would be stuff like videos on youtube.