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Im just curious for me i was opt out to begin with. But it looks like many are not?

I still have this voice in my head from Eric Schmidt "With your permission ...", "If you opt-in".

So they start to abandon the opt-in ship and we now have to keep up with every sharing/ad-feature they add throughout the whole Google ecosystem to keep the little privacy we still have?



They sent me a email earlier today.

"The changes to the Terms will be effective as of November 11, 2013. If you do not take any action, the Shared Endorsements setting will be turned on."

I imagine many people won't read the email.


Is that even legal? I’m not allowed to send my customers email newsletters without them opting in[1], how is Google allowed to sell its users’ information without opt-in? Can a company suddenly decide to change its terms, without its customers’ permission?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003




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