<unlike-us> Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking

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Google quietly erased that last privacy line in the sand – literally 
crossing out the lines in its privacy policy
...Existing users were prompted to opt-in to the change this summer.
...Google could now, if it wished to, build a complete portrait of a 
user by name, based on everything they write in email, every website 
they visit and the searches they conduct.
...Google spokeswoman Andrea Faville emailed a statement describing 
Google’s change in privacy policy as an update to adjust to the 
“smartphone revolution”

https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking