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Google is by far the most privacy respecting data company on earth. Between this, not using Gmail, not operating in China for ethical reasons, it's not clear wh
by nibsfive 6y ago
Google is by far the most privacy respecting data company on earth. Between this, not using Gmail, not operating in China for ethical reasons, it's not clear what more people could want. Don't use it if it doesn't work for you, but it's clearly being handled thoughtfully.
- qrbLPHiKpiux 6y agoWhen am I able to downvote something?
- jMyles 6y ago> what more people could want Open source audits of manipulative algorithms. It's really that simple.
- SquareWheel 6y agoIndependent audits I could understand, but open-source? That's a big fraction of their "secret sauce". I don't know if that's a reasonable ask.
- jMyles 6y agoYes, I understand it will cost them money. But I urge that we look forward to a world where black-box algorithms don't decide which information we see, and on which basis.
- sn_master 6y agoMany modern ML algorithms aren't clear on how they make decisions even if you have the code generating the models themselves.
- newbie578 6y agoYou are honestly right, but no one will admit it. Apple is imo the worst of the big tech, willingly working with CCP but you won’t hear a bad word about them here, as long as the new Mac has a working keyboard which Apple themselves broke several iterations before...
- seaman1921 6y agosorry to see reasonable opinions getting bullied for no reason