Google's New Security Rules

So Google recently sent The LCO Group their 'Privacy Policy' updates. These updates will take effect on March 1st of 2012. You can view the updated policy here or you can read below for a quick overview.

• For external processing
  Google provides personal information to their affiliates or other businesses or persons to process it for them.

• Log information
  When you use Google services or view content provided by Google, they automatically collect and store certain information in their server logs. This includes:
• details of how you used their service, such as your search queries.
• telephone log information like your phone number, calling-party number, forwarding numbers, time and date of calls, duration of calls, SMS routing information and types of calls.
• IP address.
• cookies that uniquely identify your Google Account.

• Legal
  Google will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Google if they have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:
• meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request.
• enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations.
• detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
• protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Google, our users or the public as required or permitted by law.

Please refer to Google Dashboard to find out what information Google has about you.