Before Google rolled out its controversial new privacy policy last March — the one that sparked government concerns around the world and could trigger fines in Europe — Google actually considered providing users with a simple privacy slider to let them choose the maximum amount of information to share across every one of its services, according to The Wall Street Journal . Google CEO Larry Page himself reportedly asked for the privacy slider. So why wasn't it adopted? Apparently, Google was worried that people wouldn't share information on its new Google+ social network if they had an easy way to opt out of data collection.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/30/4573436/how-google-killed-googles-company-wide-privacy-effort
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