Google’s privacy tweaks spur tech giant’s biggest e-mail campaign

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Google’s announcement about its updated privacy policy to meet strict new European Union rules has become the largest email campaign in the history of the technology company. 

“It’s so large that it’s going to take us a full week to push the notices out worldwide,” Peter Fleischer, Google’s global privacy counsel, told a data protection conference in Berlin on Monday.