Security - Manage Privacy with Google

Google is implementing significant changes to its privacy policy from 1 March 2012. Most users would have received notification of this.

Here's a news article discussing it:

If you use Google, you may want to read this
Stephen Hutcheon, February 29, 2012 - 7:33AM
How your web history page should look after you've clicked "remove".
Opinion: Australia absent in Google privacy feud
"Today is your last chance to adjust your Google privacy settings ahead of a major change to the way Google collects and collates data about you, its users.
From March 1, the company will begin to aggregate all the information it acquires about its users who are logged in to Google services into a single, unified pool of data."


Here is a list of tools on Google's page to help address privacy concerns:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/tools.html


Here are a few interesting items:

1. Use Google Search in Encrypted form:   https://encrypted.google.com

2. Block Third party cookies and site Data.
For Chrome Browser:
a. Go to Options - Under the Botnet - click Content Settings - select "Block third-party cookies and site data".
b. On the same page, click on Manage Exceptions, to create a white list of trusted sites where cookies are allowed.
c. On the same page, click All Cookies and Site Data, and check which cookies are stored.

3. Instructions on how to transfer content in and out of Google products such as Google Docs and more:
http://www.dataliberation.org/