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Google policy brings privacy worry

Changes coming March 1

By Hiawatha Bray

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 24, 2012

As online search giant Google Inc. prepares to change the way it uses information about Internet users, government regulators and consumer watchdogs worry that the company will compromise the privacy of millions of consumers. On March 1, Google will alter the way it uses data it collects on Internet users to build more detailed individual profiles of many consumers. Consumer and privacy advocates fear that Google already collects too much personal information about too many individual Internet users.

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