Google to merge user data across more services | eSchool News

Google to merge user data across more services | eSchool News

Privacy advocates slam the web-search giant for not allowing users to opt out

Google announced a plan Jan. 24 to link user data across its eMail, video, social-networking, and other services that it says will create a “beautifully simple and intuitive” user experience. But critics raised privacy concerns like those that helped kill the search giant’s Buzz social networking service.