Google’s new privacy policy to track your searches came into effect today.?

Nothing new there, they have been tracking peoples searches for ages, just now they are being open about it lol

Yes it does. You never know whether such information could get into malicious hands.

I read in the local paper how the police caught someone downloading child porn because they found him doing a search on "sexy teen schoolgirl" or something similar. [As if such a search would come up with anything illegal without getting quickly shut down! - I'm sure there are awards for the oldest porn actress that can get away with "barely legal" - some must be well in their forties, and yet with skillful poses and a bit of photoshopping, they can look 15]. He was clearly most foolish allowing his curiosity to get the better of him, which led him to break the law, and he was duly punished.

Does this mean the police have access to everything we might be googling, and this could lead to misinterpretation and a lot of trouble? Do we have to explain every perversion we explore online in private, even though it may be quite legal? I could be researching neofascist groups in order to support an answer here - would that make me a security risk? Also, seeing the ease that the police had in sharing confidential information obtained on trust with the Sun newspaper, then we all need be in fear of anything we search being misinterpreted by someone with an agenda. There is a real possibility that embarrassing information could be used to blackmail us. Mud sticks. Anything that could be interpreted by some as an inappropriate interest in children (for example a father searching for underwear for his daughter) might lead to an entry on the CRB Enhanced Disclosure for life, and a lifetime prohibition working with children, or unexplained sudden terminations of employment.

Is Google, a commercial organisation, any more trustworthy than the police or the Sun newspaper?

I don't see what the big deal is. Google offers a lot of good stuff for free and they need to make money to pay for it. Youtube is run at an enormous loss.

At the end of the day it's not like they are watching you go to the toilet. If you don't want something shared on Google, don't type it in in the first place. Nobody is forcing you to search for things.

No, I read the policy and have the power and right to not use Google. Will the EU overturn it? There is a chance but only because it is made up of countries that don't think that people are capable of making their own decisions.

Big Brothers way of just enslaving us all! Soon they will close all sites that dissagree with the NWO

its on the Drawing Board!