Check Out Google’s New Privacy Principles

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One the day of International Data Privacy Day, Google planned to unveil its latest “Privacy Principles“ which are five main guidelines it uses for all the products and services offered. These principles are not really new, but by breaking down to five points Google wants the users to understand how Google operates.

Google’s five Privacy Principles are:

Use information to provide our users with valuable products and services.
Develop products that reflect strong privacy standards and practices.
Make the collection of personal information transparent.
Give users meaningful choices to protect their privacy.
Be a responsible steward of the information we hold.”
The company details what they mean on its Privacy Policy page and also made a video explaining them. (embedded below)

Alan Eustace, senior vice president, Engineering and Research, says

We’ve always operated with these principles in mind. Now, we’re just putting them in writing so you have a better understanding of how we think about these issues from a product perspective. Like our design and software guidelines, these privacy principles are designed to guide the decisions we make when we create new technologies

It is visible that Google is interested in being as transparent as possible. Seems like privacy is a major thing today as we saw Facebook updating privacy earlier and now it is Google.

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