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This isn’t the point of the article. The point is that you can’t share your data with your friends without sharing that data with Google the company as well.
by aforty 5y ago
This isn’t the point of the article. The point is that you can’t share your data with your friends without sharing that data with Google the company as well.
- joshuamorton 5y agoGoing to have to say "duh" here. Short of an e2ee location sharing app, you have to send your location through an intermediary for your friend to see it.
- dzdt 5y agoIt is "duh" that google has access to the information as they relay it from your phone to another party. But you could imagine it being like the post office, where in the US it is a federal offense to read someone's mail en route. Google could convey the location information with a "sealed envelope" policy. But they don't.
- folmar 5y ago> Short of an e2ee location sharing app Delta chat can do it for you.
- Xelynega 5y agoI believe e2ee should be the default when I consent to share private information with someone through an intermediary. The libraries are already on every device with a web browser and the overhead is minimal, so IMO there's no excuse other than the intermediary wanting to look at the data.