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Are you kidding me? Crumble overnight? Have you not heard of the massive data breaches from the credit reporting industry? They got a minor slap on the wrist an

Are you kidding me? Crumble overnight? Have you not heard of the massive data breaches from the credit reporting industry? They got a minor slap on the wrist and everything is continuing as though it never happened. I don't understand how people can have such naive views in this day and age. Google is FAR MORE important today than a credit reporting company. They wouldn't go anywhere.

judge2020 5y ago
Nobody affected by those breaches willingly worked with the credit reporting industry. Everyone with a Workspace subscription willingly works with it and moving all the stuff Google Workspace offers off to Office 365 can be done relatively quickly by downloading all drive data, syncing user email, contacts, and caldav, and exporting Sheets/Gdocs as their Office file format counterparts.
- InitialBP 5y ago
  There are numerous other breaches of companies that people continue to shop/work with literally weekly if not daily. Wikipedia might not be the best source but they have a list of companies that have had data breaches, but there is a huge list of companies that have had public breaches. Just to name a few and their sources that you people everywhere still use because the majority of people don't care about privacy or security. Apple - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/22/apple-developer-site-hacked https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/22/apple-dev... AT&T - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jun/10/apple-ipad-security-leak?INTCMP=SRCH https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jun/10/apple-ipa... Barnes and Noble - https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/business/hackers-get-credit-data-at-barnes-noble.html https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/business/hackers-get-cred... Capital One - https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/business/capital-one-data-breach/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/business/capital-one-data-bre... There's plenty of other examples on here - but I agree with the parent, Google could implode and leak everything and the average person could not be bothered to change their emails or stop using Google.
Karunamon 5y ago
As a consumer, you can make the choice to not use Google. You can not reasonably avoid dealing with the credit reporting industry.
- hackerfromthefu 5y ago
  Maybe, but you can't easily stop Google using you. Or FB, etc etc
  - judge2020 5y ago
    Yes you can. You can disable cookies, or use ad blockers. Specifically, this is talking about Google Workspace customers, so all their customers can easily move off using them for hosted email.
    - hackerfromthefu 5y ago
      Do you watch youtube? Get email from people using Gmail. The list goes on, if you think outside your box. My comment is not limited to workspaces, that's a strawman.

judge2020 5y ago

Nobody affected by those breaches willingly worked with the credit reporting industry. Everyone with a Workspace subscription willingly works with it and moving all the stuff Google Workspace offers off to Office 365 can be done relatively quickly by downloading all drive data, syncing user email, contacts, and caldav, and exporting Sheets/Gdocs as their Office file format counterparts.

InitialBP 5y ago
There are numerous other breaches of companies that people continue to shop/work with literally weekly if not daily. Wikipedia might not be the best source but they have a list of companies that have had data breaches, but there is a huge list of companies that have had public breaches. Just to name a few and their sources that you people everywhere still use because the majority of people don't care about privacy or security. Apple - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/22/apple-developer-site-hacked https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/22/apple-dev... AT&T - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jun/10/apple-ipad-security-leak?INTCMP=SRCH https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jun/10/apple-ipa... Barnes and Noble - https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/business/hackers-get-credit-data-at-barnes-noble.html https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/business/hackers-get-cred... Capital One - https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/business/capital-one-data-breach/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/business/capital-one-data-bre... There's plenty of other examples on here - but I agree with the parent, Google could implode and leak everything and the average person could not be bothered to change their emails or stop using Google.

Karunamon 5y ago

As a consumer, you can make the choice to not use Google. You can not reasonably avoid dealing with the credit reporting industry.

hackerfromthefu 5y ago
Maybe, but you can't easily stop Google using you. Or FB, etc etc
- judge2020 5y ago
  Yes you can. You can disable cookies, or use ad blockers. Specifically, this is talking about Google Workspace customers, so all their customers can easily move off using them for hosted email.
  - hackerfromthefu 5y ago
    Do you watch youtube? Get email from people using Gmail. The list goes on, if you think outside your box. My comment is not limited to workspaces, that's a strawman.