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> People want comprehensive details about what companies do with their information, but they also want short privacy policies. You can't have both.

You can, if the companies would not track users.

"We are not logging your activity, we are not using cookies unless you are using the webshop's cart and we delete it when the transaction is confirmed. We do not share your private information to anyone but the payment company.

We log IPs for 3 months for technical debugging. We do not try to identify the people the IPs belong to unless an illegal intrusion is detected."




This might be sensible for a wordpress plugin ecommerce website, however it is a ridiculous position when talking about Google activities. Gmail's point and value proposition is to store and fetch personal and professional information for the benefit of their users.




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