UK Demands Google to Change Privacy Policy
Google only has 76 days to make a change.
Back in early 2012, Google announced plans to consolidate more than 60 of its individual policies into a main privacy policy. Prior to this change, Google had more than 70 privacy documents covering its different products. However, many users took issue with Google's new policy, which the search giant explained would track users across all of the Google products they used and treat them as a single user.
Following an investigation, the UK's information commissioner has given Google a deadline to improve its privacy policies. Specifically, the ICO believes that the updated policy does not provide Google users with sufficient information to understand how their data will be used and stored across the company's products.
"Google must now amend their privacy policy to make it more informative for individual service users," the ICO said in a statement. "Failure to take the necessary action to improve the policies compliance with the Data Protection Act by 20 September will leave the company open to the possibility of formal enforcement action."
The news follows similar action from France and Spain, and the UK's ICO says it reached its decision after working with the other members of the Article 29 Working Party, made up of the other 27 data protection authorities from across Europe. According to the Guardian newspaper, Germany and Italy have also requested that Google make changes to its policy.

Read the fine print for Google+. Did you know Google clams ownership of every word you use on that "service"? Facebook is bad enough.
Well...that's the point. Either put so much junk in writing that the reader loses focus and says "Wait, what were all those important parts from awhile ago?" or put so much in so people won't actually dare read it at all.
The NSA can only look with envy at what the UK has accomplished in public surveillance. Although Bush and Obama have done their darnedest to help us catch up.
You've been a bit taken in by the idea rather than the facts. The vans cannot detect TV usage at ALL - they just assume that everyone has a TV when they don't pay a licence. The 'dectetion' is based on EM leakage which basically any device can emit, and furthermore because they don't specifically want to divulge how they purport to detecting it, they can't/won't use it if it goes to court. It used to be possible to detect CRT because you can literally pick the the electron gun 'signal' and view the image remotely - not so with modern TV sets.
I haven't paid a TV license in 20 years - sometimes they send a letter or come and say hello, but I just wish them well and see them on their way.