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Yes, but there are two problems with this particular company: 1. they have grown this mentality where they gather any data they can get their hands on - apolog
by pawadu 9y ago
Yes, but there are two problems with this particular company:
1. they have grown this mentality where they gather any data they can get their hands on - apologize only when/if caught red handed. (remember google street car password gathering?).
2. the more you use their services the more dependent you become. but google have shown zero care for individual consumers. (who do you call if gmail craps out on you?)
- Mathnerd314 9y ago> data gathering It's not really any worse an invasion of privacy than Snowden or Wikileaks. At least Google apologizes instead of going on about how information should be free. > more dependent Google actively reduces dependence, e.g. by their data takeout option. Obviously there's always going to be some switching cost but it's not like Google is a prison. > Who do you call if gmail craps out Well, if you have a SLA, you just call them on their 99.9% uptime guarantee: https://www.cnet.com/news/can-you-trust-your-business-to-googles-cloud/ https://www.cnet.com/news/can-you-trust-your-business-to-goo... I guess if you're a consumer you don't get the same level of support, but it uses the same infrastructure so any problems will show up on the dashboard: https://www.google.com/appsstatus https://www.google.com/appsstatus The reparations in all cases are limited to service credits, so you'd just be getting more free use of an already free service.
- zyx321 9y ago>It's not really any worse an invasion of privacy than Snowden or Wikileaks So informing people that their government is spying on them is the same as spying on them yourself?
- joshuamorton 9y ago>(who do you call if gmail craps out on you?) When was the last time gmail crapped out on you?
- scholia 9y agoThe most likely scenario is people getting locked out of Gmail https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=locked+out+of+Gmail https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=locked+out+of+Gmail
- euyyn 9y ago> remember google street car password gathering? What? Wasn't that "SSID gathering", as in "the name you give your WiFi network, which is then visible to anyone that passes by"? How could a streetview car gather passwords?
- pawadu 9y agohttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2137145/Google-KNEW-harvesting-emails-passwords-Street-View-drive.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2137145/Googl...
- euyyn 9y agoThanks for the link! From Alan Eustace himself, too: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/creating-stronger-privacy-controls.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/creating-stronger-pr...