As a general rule, you should ignore all editorializing in press releases that spin something as a benefit, especially where your rights or data are involved. I

As a general rule, you should ignore all editorializing in press releases that spin something as a benefit, especially where your rights or data are involved. If they are trying to screw you, they are going to be spinning it. I am not saying they are or are not doing this in this case (though I am very concerned), but the goal is never to "make things more simple." Google did not sit around and pay a group of people to simplify their policies. In fact, it's insulting to users' intelligence that they state this as the primary motivator. This change is to enable something much bigger. Just like when facebook makes "sharing more simple".