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I have to say, my experience working with Google is that they actually resist the acquisition of information that's not in the public domain in a lot of ways. I
by 0xWTF 6y ago
I have to say, my experience working with Google is that they actually resist the acquisition of information that's not in the public domain in a lot of ways. I've seen them fund another company's development team to do work, even buying the other company hardware for the task, just to avoid the data. I've seen them consciously exclude engineering tools you'd think are right up their alley, because the tools would acquire data which, while entirely in-scope and on-mission, could be considered too sensitive in some context.
If they're collecting this data, I strongly suspect they feel obligated to, maybe even compelled too. Possibly for purposes like app security, user security, OS security, user experience, etc.
- the_pwner224 6y ago> If they're collecting this data, I strongly suspect they feel obligated to, maybe even compelled too. Possibly for purposes like app security, user security, OS security, user experience, etc. This doesn't really make sense; none of those are compelling use cases for such invasive data collection. And this additional new tracking does not seem very useful for security, and even then there's no reason for all of the data to leave the device if it's for security.
- tdeck 6y agoPlay collects certain metrics about app usage because app developers want them (not sure how much overlap there is with what's described in the article). Source: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/139628?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...