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Google seems no better than Facebook when it comes to privacy, and I'm not just talking about how far they're willing to go in tracking users, but also how they
by mtgx 10y ago
Google seems no better than Facebook when it comes to privacy, and I'm not just talking about how far they're willing to go in tracking users, but also how they are willing to lie and violate their users' trust so they can collect more data.
Facebook is now getting into trouble in the EU for breaking their promise about not sharing WhatsApp data, and yet Google still goes ahead and does this. I hope the European Commission adds this as one more charge against Google.
Without real enforcement the companies will continue to do whatever the hell they want.
- rahrahrah 10y agoAnd when that happens every American on HN will go "look at that old crusty EU, getting in the way of progress again with their bloated regulations".
- skummetmaelk 10y agoThe free market fallacy.
- rahrahrah 10y agoI'm starting to hate the word "fallacy". What's the free market fallacy? The idea that not everything that's driven by free market is great? Why call that a fallacy, why not just call it being wrong?
- skummetmaelk 10y agoA fallacy is really any argument that is wrong because of wrong assumptions or faulty logic, but leads to a believable result anyway. The free market fallacy is a fallacy because people who believe the free market solves problems base this claim on the assumption that human beings are rational and have access to all information.