Abstract Google is the gateway to the Internet for billions of people. However, to use Google’s multiple platforms and services, users must accept Google’s terms. With the advent of the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), Google made significant changes to these terms. In this article, we scrutinise the intertextual relations between Google’s privacy policies and terms of service (ToS) and the GDPR – and the discursive co-constitutive complexity within and between these frameworks. We argue that the material and communicative articulation of Google’s privacy policies and ToS should be understood as deliberative data politics delimiting users’ agency, consent, and privacy. Furthermore, we emphasise complexity and the demands of reducing complexity as two opposing dynamics. While the GDPR required Google to make its terms and policies clearer and more understandable, ironically, in the process of accommodating GDPR’s demand of increased transparency, the discursive complexity of Google’s policies has in fact increased.

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共同构成的复杂性解开谷歌的隐私政策和服务条款后 GDPR

摘要 Google 是数十亿人通往互联网的门户。但是，要使用谷歌的多种平台和服务，用户必须接受谷歌的条款。随着欧盟 GDPR（通用数据保护条例）的出现，Google 对这些条款进行了重大更改。在本文中，我们仔细研究了 Google 的隐私政策和服务条款 (ToS) 与 GDPR 之间的互文关系，以及这些框架内部和之间的话语共同构成复杂性。我们认为，谷歌隐私政策和服务条款的材料和沟通表达应该被理解为界定用户代理、同意和隐私的审慎数据政治。此外，我们强调复杂性和降低复杂性的需求是两个相反的动力。