Policy Notifier

Name: Policy Notifier
Rating: 2.875 (8 reviews)
Author: Policy Notifier Team

Informs Googlers of software and services not approved for corp data.

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2025-06-14

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What is it? Policy Notifier is an internal Chrome extension that provides timely reminders about our information security and privacy policy while respecting the user and not disrupting their workflow. An overview of what each extension permission is used for can be found in the permissions section. You can try it by visiting dropbox.com or go/fakeflashplayer after installing the extension.

Sending Feedback You can send feedback at any time by pressing on the Policy Notifier icon in your browser and clicking "Send Feedback".

Is this an orange/red team? No.

But this is an excellent question! Thank you for caring about our security.

Policy Notifier uses verified builds. The signing keys were removed from the Chrome Web Store in b/111806844 and are only stored in keystore. This ensures Policy Notifier can only be signed by code that is committed into google3. Verified Builds were made possible by the Chrome Extension Verified Builds project by EIP-PS. See the security, privacy and permissions pages for more information.

Feel free to reach out either via policy-notifier@google.com or go/entsecops-pn-bug if you need further assurances about the legitimacy of this project.

Limits on Notifications Notifications are limited to:

1 notification per day per user, and 1 notification per service per user per 30 days. The only exception are notifications for suspected malware. Most dogfooders report seeing a couple of notifications a month. This tool is intended to respect the user's workflow, please let us know if you are seeing too many notifications.

Extension

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Users:

Rating:

Version:

1.6.25 Last updated: 2025-05-07

Creation date:

2025-05-07

Risk:

Permissions:

webNavigation
storage
notifications
downloads
system.storage
alarms
management
identity
identity.email

Size:

63.73KB

Email:

po*****@google.com

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

3 days ago

User reviews

Mostly useless extension that breaks my train of thought all the time.

Ar*****, 2025-01-04

Noisy, patronising, nanny app. Really don't appreciate being treated like an idiot.

Ga*****, 2018-11-16

Screenshot does not match actual extension.

Ca*****, 2018-10-02

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Policy Notifier requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

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Policy Notifier is recently added, and hasn't been around long enough for us to gather enough data to accurately assess its risk level.