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Source-backed from Google Privacy Policy

111
reviewed findings
15
key findings
3
free to read here
2
verified controls

Privacy Snapshot

What the published policy covers, and how much we found under each. Tap one to read it.

  • Location 7 findings
  • Camera & Photos 2 findings
  • Contacts 1 finding
  • Sensitive Data 6 findings
  • Tracking 9 findings
  • Advertising & Profiling 18 findings
  • Sharing 24 findings
  • Controls & Permissions 28 findings
  • Other 16 findings

3 findings, in full

The first 3 of this report’s 15 key findings, complete — claim, reasoning, and the policy’s own wording.

Controls & Permissions You can choose whether your search activity shapes results and recommendations

What this means

A setting governs whether your search activity is used to offer more relevant results and recommendations.

You can choose whether your search activity is used to offer more relevant results and recommendations.

Why this matters

It is one of the few places in this report where the reader is offered a switch rather than told about a practice.

What the policy says

Signed-out search customization : Choose whether your search activity is used to offer you more relevant results and recommendations.

From Google Privacy Policy

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What you can do

A privacy control may reduce part of this practice.

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Advertising & Profiling Watching YouTube may lead to related ads on other sites, depending on settings

What this means

Google states that, depending on your settings, videos you watch on YouTube can result in related ads appearing on other sites that use Google's advertising products.

Depending on your settings, watching videos on YouTube may result in you seeing related ads on other sites that use Google's ad products.

Why this matters

It is the clearest statement that what you watch privately can follow you around the web.

What the policy says

For example, depending on your available settings, if you watch videos of guitar players on YouTube, you might see an ad for guitar lessons on a site that uses our ad products.

From Google Privacy Policy

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Advertising & Profiling Google says it does not show personalized ads based on sensitive categories

What this means

Google states that personalized ads are not shown on the basis of sensitive categories such as race, religion, sexual orientation or health.

Google does not show personalized ads based on sensitive categories such as race, religion, sexual orientation, or health.

Why this matters

A clearly stated limit is useful precisely because so much else in advertising is open-ended.

What the policy says

We don’t show you personalized ads based on sensitive categories , such as race, religion, sexual orientation, or health.

From Google Privacy Policy

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12 more key findings a free account opens, by topic

  • Advertising & Profiling 4
  • Tracking 3
  • Location 2
  • Contacts 1
  • Controls & Permissions 1
  • Sensitive Data 1

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  • Location 5 more
  • Camera & Photos 2 more
  • Sensitive Data 5 more
  • Tracking 6 more
  • Advertising & Profiling 12 more
  • Sharing 24 more
  • Controls & Permissions 26 more
  • Other 16 more

  • Complete report

    96 additional reviewed findings, each shown with the policy wording behind it, like the 15 above.

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    2 verified privacy controls, 1 of them high-impact — where each one is, what it changes, and what may stop working.

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