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>There are a lot of Googlers on HN who blindly follow Google Which is weird because internally people are pretty damn skeptical. If anything is found I'm all f

>There are a lot of Googlers on HN who blindly follow Google Which is weird because internally people are pretty damn skeptical. If anything is found I'm all for doing what is determined "correct". I would worry that people with little understanding would make that call but time will tell. On the flipside of the quoted statement, I will say that Googlers have a far better understanding about what is collected/done (in other instance IE privacy) that your random at HN so are more likely to not be so dismissive/fear mongering. When you've seen the stomach of the best it's far less scary. Default opinions are my own because I'm paranoid.

ForHackernews 6y ago
> I will say that Googlers have a far better understanding ...it's far less scary. I've heard variations on this theme from a lot of Googlers, and it always seems like "just trust us!" but then they can't or won't publicly disclose any reasons why we should. Do you remember this pledge? http://neveragain.tech/ http://neveragain.tech/ > We refuse to build a database of people based on their Constitutionally-protected religious beliefs. We refuse to facilitate mass deportations of people the government believes to be undesirable. A bunch of Googlers signed that, but I'd wager Google has _already_ built that database. Maybe not explicitly, but I bet Google has a decent estimate of their users' religious beliefs, race, immigration status, etc. Those are valuable categories for marketers to target!