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Received several emails ref: Changes to Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service???

OnAndUp

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27 January 2012 at 4:53PM edited 27 January 2012 at 4:57PM in Techie Stuff

This is a weird one.....not strictly techie but I'm not sure who else to ask!

I have a gmail email address and amongst others 3 virgin emails.

I have had copy of the "Changes to Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service" sent to all 4 of them yesterday / today. Obviously the gmail one is self explanatory but I haven't used any of the other one's for any of google's services inc youtube etc. so where the hell did they get my email addresses from......

Baffled me?!?! :eek:

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Andrew1472 Posts: 301 Forumite

27 January 2012 at 4:58PM

Have a read of this http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/26/google_emails_virgin_media_subscribers/

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OnAndUp Posts: 981 Forumite

27 January 2012 at 5:06PM

Oh! - Thank you very much Andrew1472 appreciate that!

It explains a lot and clearly not just me then neither.

I forgot that google now do virgin's email platform, still out of order though!

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fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite

28 January 2012 at 9:40AM

Same for Sky customers

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buglawton Posts: 9,246 Forumite

28 January 2012 at 6:53PM

I think that the new Privacy Policy says that Google can farm and use the email addresses of anyone who has a Gmail-based account

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