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This is infuriating, I am visibly shaking. Why can't Google act out of the interest of user privacy and stop collecting data in these dire times for once? Charg

This is infuriating, I am visibly shaking. Why can't Google act out of the interest of user privacy and stop collecting data in these dire times for once? Charge me $5, but stop collecting data about me. Edit: Sorry about my language.

milemi 7y ago
You haven’t stopped to think why it might be a good idea to collect this data? You really think it’s being done for profit?
- spectramax 7y ago
  Based on the kind of things the Ad-tech industry does [1], without proper laws protecting users, I have absolutely zero...zilch trust in any advertisement company - I am not partial to Google, rope in Microsoft, Viacom, Amazon, Adobe, Oracle, all of them [2] (these are the top ad aggregators and auctioning houses). The last company I am willing to give my health information is an advertisment company. Nothing to worry, the fox is doing a great job at keeping the hens safe. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/technology/internet-advertising-business.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/technology/internet-adver... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_advertising_technology_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_advertising_technology...
  - starik36 7y ago
    If you feel that you absolutely must use this website, just create a throwaway google account and move on with your life.
ekux44 7y ago
Imagine you worked at Google. Imagine you were tasked with building this website as quickly as possible. You have available internal tools designed to work with Google accounts. These tools have already been tested and validated. They have already gone through some level of security and privacy review. They have already scaled to high QPS production uses.
- unlinked_dll 7y ago
  I think most of us could do this without Google signin in about 15 minutes.
  - Pfhreak 7y ago
    I'll get the stopwatch and generously double your time limit to 30 minutes. Maybe if they've covered California you could do some of the other states.
    - shard972 7y ago
      If only we had some kind of open standard for user authentication, we could call it OAuth maybe.
alkibiades 7y ago
lol, you're shaking?
yegle 7y ago
Security is part of the launch review. An ad-hoc user system would require significantly more effort to properly review and get approval. I doubt the website would have finished the PRR if it's not using the existing user system. Disclaimer: engineer working for Google but not in Verily.
throwaway490194 7y ago
When people are working against the clock to save as many lives as possible and one guy is “visibly shaking” because he is worried about his privacy. How do you tell someone nicely that they might be a narcissist?
tsycho 7y ago
Do something yourself. Get out of the way of people who are actually doing something. Not everything is a conspiracy.

milemi 7y ago

You haven’t stopped to think why it might be a good idea to collect this data? You really think it’s being done for profit?

spectramax 7y ago
Based on the kind of things the Ad-tech industry does [1], without proper laws protecting users, I have absolutely zero...zilch trust in any advertisement company - I am not partial to Google, rope in Microsoft, Viacom, Amazon, Adobe, Oracle, all of them [2] (these are the top ad aggregators and auctioning houses). The last company I am willing to give my health information is an advertisment company. Nothing to worry, the fox is doing a great job at keeping the hens safe. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/technology/internet-advertising-business.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/technology/internet-adver... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_advertising_technology_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_advertising_technology...
- starik36 7y ago
  If you feel that you absolutely must use this website, just create a throwaway google account and move on with your life.

ekux44 7y ago

Imagine you worked at Google. Imagine you were tasked with building this website as quickly as possible. You have available internal tools designed to work with Google accounts. These tools have already been tested and validated. They have already gone through some level of security and privacy review. They have already scaled to high QPS production uses.

unlinked_dll 7y ago
I think most of us could do this without Google signin in about 15 minutes.
- Pfhreak 7y ago
  I'll get the stopwatch and generously double your time limit to 30 minutes. Maybe if they've covered California you could do some of the other states.
  - shard972 7y ago
    If only we had some kind of open standard for user authentication, we could call it OAuth maybe.

alkibiades 7y ago

lol, you're shaking?

yegle 7y ago

Security is part of the launch review. An ad-hoc user system would require significantly more effort to properly review and get approval. I doubt the website would have finished the PRR if it's not using the existing user system. Disclaimer: engineer working for Google but not in Verily.

throwaway490194 7y ago

When people are working against the clock to save as many lives as possible and one guy is “visibly shaking” because he is worried about his privacy. How do you tell someone nicely that they might be a narcissist?

tsycho 7y ago

Do something yourself. Get out of the way of people who are actually doing something. Not everything is a conspiracy.