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User privacy against other people? I actually mildly agree, but no more than any other company.

User privacy against the NSA? No. Any company with ethics would have gone public with PRISM.

User privacy against google's analytics and targeted advertising? Definitely not. Users are the product as far as google is concerned. Why else would they have privacy options shrink monthly, close well-used and liked services like Reader (disclosure: I never used Reader), and spend so much time forcing people into google+ against their wishes? Combine that with the latest anti-privacy features in Android 4.4 and google's creeping "you must use your real name" and it's about as far from privacy as you can get.