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Google might know a lot about you but they have never exposed that to third party apps. Facebook's data is much more personal. With a user's "Like" stream it's

by guelo 9y ago

Google might know a lot about you but they have never exposed that to third party apps. Facebook's data is much more personal. With a user's "Like" stream it's possible to build a surprisingly accurate personality profile. The worst Android offenders, as always, are the big ad libraries that are installed across a lot of apps. They're able to build a rough personality profile based on the types of apps someone has installed. So they can generally say if a user is into categories like music or politics or comedy. But that problem exists on iOS and the web. Android has also tightened up its permission model considerably over the last several years.

jlarocco 9y ago
> Google might know a lot about you but they have never exposed that to third party apps. How do you know that?
prepend 9y ago
Remember the 2013 Snowden leaks? Google doesn’t have to knowingly expose their info on you, it may happen against their will. Or unknown to them. Even if Google is an altruistic organization, it’s dangerous to have that profile data remote. I hope that local computing can get strong enough to do the same types of assistant type usefulness through local AI and peer to peer sharing. This will also estimate travel time, recognize appointments, etc etc. Open source to the rescue.
cjhopman 9y ago
> Google might know a lot about you but they have never exposed that to third party apps It depends on what you mean by exposed. In the context of Cow Clicker (or even the CA stuff) the data wasn't really exposed, it was shared. Google shares your private data all the time. Ex 1. Google+ APIs. Ex 2. Android APIs. Ex 3. Gmail API. Allowing app developers access to information about a user is standard procedure (because otherwise apps would be terrible). Many of these platforms (Android, Facebook, etc.) have, over time, tightened up the access to this information.

by guelo 9y ago

jlarocco 9y ago

> Google might know a lot about you but they have never exposed that to third party apps. How do you know that?

prepend 9y ago

Remember the 2013 Snowden leaks? Google doesn’t have to knowingly expose their info on you, it may happen against their will. Or unknown to them. Even if Google is an altruistic organization, it’s dangerous to have that profile data remote. I hope that local computing can get strong enough to do the same types of assistant type usefulness through local AI and peer to peer sharing. This will also estimate travel time, recognize appointments, etc etc. Open source to the rescue.

cjhopman 9y ago

> Google might know a lot about you but they have never exposed that to third party apps It depends on what you mean by exposed. In the context of Cow Clicker (or even the CA stuff) the data wasn't really exposed, it was shared. Google shares your private data all the time. Ex 1. Google+ APIs. Ex 2. Android APIs. Ex 3. Gmail API. Allowing app developers access to information about a user is standard procedure (because otherwise apps would be terrible). Many of these platforms (Android, Facebook, etc.) have, over time, tightened up the access to this information.