Nest CEO Tony Fadell took on one of the many lingering questions about Google’s $3.2 billion acquisition of the company: What will become of its privacy policy? Any changes to Nest’s privacy policy will be opt-in, and the company will be “transparent” about those changes to its users, Fadell promised. This assurance from Fadell is almost as significant as Google’s acquisition of Nest. Google’s coin of the realm, ultimately, is information about its users, and the Nest acquisition is opening a whole new universe of customers for Google.
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Nest CEO Promises to Preserve Privacy
Posted by: Erika Morphy January 21, 2014 10:13 AMNest CEO Tony Fadell took on one of the many lingering questions about Google’s $3.2 billion acquisition of the company: What will become of its privacy policy? Any changes to Nest’s privacy policy will be opt-in, and the company will be “transparent” about those changes to its users, Fadell promised. This assurance from Fadell is almost as significant as Google’s acquisition of Nest. Google’s coin of the realm, ultimately, is information about its users, and the Nest acquisition is opening a whole new universe of customers for Google.