I got to see the google privacy message (verbatum below) my relation had seen in IE, as I say, I do not know why it just started appearing,
but it presents with just a 'I accept' or 'other options' button, without an obvious 'bother me later' option. It is an intimidating/complex message for those less literate
A privacy reminder from Google
Data we process when you use Google
When you search for a restaurant on Google Maps or watch a video on YouTube, for example, we process information about that activity – including information like the video you watched, device IDs, IP addresses, cookie data and location.
We also process the kind of information described above when you use apps or sites that use Google services like ads, Analytics and the YouTube video player.
Why we process it
We process this data for the purposes described in our policy, including to:
Help our services deliver more useful, customised content such as more relevant search results;
Improve the quality of our services and develop new ones;
Deliver ads based on your interests, including things like searches you've done or videos you've watched on YouTube;
Improve security by protecting against fraud and abuse; and
Conduct analytics and measurement to understand how our services are used.
Combining data
We also combine data among our services and across your devices for these purposes. For example, we use data from trillions of search queries to build spell-correction models that we use across all of our services, and we combine data to alert you and other users to potential security risks.
Learn how Google uses data to improve your experience
Tip: If you sign in to your Google Account before agreeing, we'll remember your choice across all of your signed-in devices and browsers.
Other options
There are many privacy controls that you can use, even when you're signed out, to achieve the Google experience that you want.
Search customisation
Control whether or not search results are affected by search activity in this browser
Edit settings
Ads settings
Adjust the types of ads that you see from Google
Edit settings
YouTube customisation
Control whether or not your YouTube experience is affected by YouTube search and watch activity in this browser
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Browser-based controls
Manage how your browser uses cookies or sends data to services like Google Analytics
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Manage your Google privacy controls any time at myaccount.google.com.
I got rid of it by adding google.co.uk to the IE restricted site list
... I am still a user of gmail (sometimes forwarded to thunderbird) and it annoys me that effectively all the emails
will be 'analyzed', but I do not know if you can yet get any gmail add on
or other email tool, that would allow you to make secure communication
easily (should I worship at the apple alter) ...a pre-shared key with your
common friends and then seemless en(de)cryption - seems such a product
would fly off the shelves. ?
[I was amused/horrified recently by the stupidity of some of the companies who provide job referencing facilities (to allow potential employees to validate cv's) who expected me to send a unencrypted pdf of a cv in an
email to them ..rather I want to telephone them with a key to decrypt an email attachment I would send) their advertising says how securely they
guard data ... but you cannot send it to them securely]
