Mat Honan: Google's broken promise: the end of "don't be evil"

Gizmodo :: In a privacy policy shift, Google announced today that it will begin tracking users universally across all its services—Gmail, Search, YouTube and more—and sharing data on user activity across all of them. This has been long coming. Google's privacy policies have been shifting towards sharing data across services, and away from data compartmentalization for some time. But this is an entirely new level of sharing.

[Mat Honan:] So why are we calling this evil? Because Google changed the rules that it defined itself. Google built its reputation, and its multi-billion dollar business, on the promise of its "don't be evil" philosophy.

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