Honestly, people have to be fools to think this is anything more than a feel-good placebo. Google is only doing this because public sentiment is starting to gro

Honestly, people have to be fools to think this is anything more than a feel-good placebo. Google is only doing this because public sentiment is starting to grow restless regarding data privacy. But given the pitiful, embarrassing grasp (judging by the Facebook/Google hearings) Congress has on the issue, I guarantee there will be no kind of followup to ensure Google actually deletes the data as they say they will. And honestly, why would they actually implement the feature? Who's going to hold them accountable? Won't be the federal government, they're a wet sock. Won't be shareholders, it's actually against their interest to provide data deletion. Won't be the media, they'll move onto another news narrative soon enough.