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You're expecting me to believe a company that relies on soaking up personal data, and tried to pull the "We will do no evil", is stiĺl at it? Say it ain't so.
by Clownshoesms 9y ago
You're expecting me to believe a company that relies on soaking up personal data, and tried to pull the "We will do no evil", is stiĺl at it? Say it ain't so.
- csydas 9y agoWell, yes. We expect that when a company presents a legal contract promising not to do something and that service X doesn't do action Y that it's truthful. If they want to enter into it to intentionally violate said contract, it just seems absolutely bizarre that they'd even present a contract in the first place. I get the feeling that this wasn't some insidious conspiracy from Google to get us hooked on GAFE so much as internal forces at Google not talking to one another and data-collection ultimately winning out. I find that the more complicated explanation is Google decided to do this despite the risk of fighting fines and additional regulations from the government as well as potentially thousands of institutions, and potentially tens of thousands of individuals led to believe the terms and conditions of the contract were different than what Google presented, as opposed to Google made GAFE and presented it at face value, and other forces within Google decided to go ahead with the data collection anyways. Right hand not knowing what the left is doing just seems more plausible and reasonable. I don't know either way, and cynicism can be healthy, but this just feels like cynicism for the sake of cynicism. Yes, Google is a data blackhole, and it's an unscrupulous company, but this would just be absolute incompetency on their part. I'm not denying the possibility, but that's a big pill to swallow.