Google's privacy policy "too vague"

GOOGLE'S GLOBAL privacy lawyer has admitted that parts of the outfit's privacy policy are too vague and need to be tightened up.

In an interview with the Beeb, Peter Fleischer said the company "could do better" with policy statements that explained why user information was sometimes shared with third parties.

At the moment the policy implies that Google will give data to third parties if they didn't pass it on, in the interests of network security and to comply with legal processes. But it is not very clear what these circumstances would be. Fleischer said Google would never give "identifiable personal data" to third parties, including advertisers.

He said that maintaining user privacy was pretty fundamental to Google. The only time the outfit would share data was when personal information had been stripped from it. Honest.

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