‘Internet privacy people shuddering’

“Today is the day internet privacy people are shuddering,” Jules Polonetsky, co-founder of the Washington think-tank Future of Privacy Forum said at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

“Today is the day that Google are consolidating 60 of its privacy policies into one. It means that one day all of Google’s data might be unified.

We’ve seen this cycle over and over again. It’s very alarming. People have been happy to turn over their consolidated data to Apple, for example, lining up, killing each other to get the latest Apple device, happy to be marketed to by Apple, who have captured all their personal, buying data.