That's about the only positive statement on that page. Here's context.
The title:
What Actually Changed in Google’s Privacy Policy
It Shouldn't Take a Letter from Congress for Google to Give Straight Answers
About Privacy Policy Changes
and the sentence after the one you quoted
Unfortunately, while the policy might be easier to understand, Google did a
less impressive job of publicly explaining what in the policy had actually
been changed. In fact, it took a letter from eight Representatives to
persuade them to provide straightforward answers to the public about their
new policy.
and again
Unfortunately, Google’s original explanation left much to be desired. The
policy’s overview page said nothing about the substantive changes that were
occurring in the policy, and the FAQ was equally vague:
So yes, maybe Google notified people. But unless you view reading a large document written by lawyers as somehow pointing out that Google is now collecting the same data the NSA worked so hard to get their hands on -- the call logs of every android user -- that's nothing like notification.
Here's notification as written by someone who actually wants to notify rather than do the minimum possible to cover their ass while simultaneously obscuring what they actually collect:
We will now record and store every phone number you call.
This goes a long way towards explaining why people trust Apple and distrust Google.
ps -- under substantial changes, nothing about telephony. So apparently the eff didn't see or didn't understand the change either.