Google privacy concerns: Google ready to pay $8.5M over Buzz privacy issue

Google privacy concerns: Google ready to pay $8.5M over Buzz privacy issue. Google has promised to take note of people’s growing privacy concerns. Google and Facebook, to leading internet giants are increasingly under pressure over the fact that they don’t respect their users’ privacy concerns.

But what I understand right now is the fact that Google would not be taking care of privacy concerns but would be only removing some clauses that do not have any relevance.

The privacy policies of Google and Facebook are so lengthy and for common people so confusing that at times they cannot understand what it wants to say. Many people say that you need to be topnotch legal eagle to comprehend actually what this means.

A senior Google legal official Mike Yang says, “Long, complicated and lawyerly—that's what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason…So we're simplifying and updating Google's privacy policies.”

Meanwhile people say they don’t feel comfortable by the thought that someone else is using their private details and keeping it. A reader says, “I get an uneasy feeling somehow when I hear that someone is tracking my interests online. Supposed to be for my benefit by serving me with the search results that suit my profile best. But this kind of thing is so easily open to abuse. That uneasy feeling tells me that I will opt out of this and I rather think that a lot of others will to”.

Another reader though has a different view and says, “Google is way too large and powerful that I don't think they will be forcing anyone away with this. It is only a matter of time before the majority of ads on the internet are interest based. It is just simply the next step. Facebook has been trying to do it for quite some time now. Google has taken a lot of precautionary steps to make sure this goes over pretty well. If people really have that big of a problem with it then they can opt-out of it and all is well again. This is just going to create more advertising revenue for Google and other sites and companies that start doing interest based ads. This advertising revenue can then be used to benefit us, the users, with site improvements”.

In the meantime a report says that Google recently decided to pay $8.5 million regarding its social networking platform Buzz.