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Try using any Google property with an effective privacy tool such as TOR, and you'll see what a joke the "Chief Privacy Officer" position is. Their past action
by car_analogy 4y ago
Try using any Google property with an effective privacy tool such as TOR, and you'll see what a joke the "Chief Privacy Officer" position is.
Their past actions consisted of collecting location data even for users who turned it off [1], making the settings so confusing even its own engineers couldn't turn it off [2], and then giving that data to any government agency that asked [3], and selling it to anyone with a few spare dollars.
So they lie to trick users into a false sense of privacy, spy on them regardless, and give that data to, among others, police, to be used against users. But this time it's different, and we can trust them.
[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/google-location-data-privacy-android-sundar-pichai-a8490636.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/google-loc...
[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/google-privacy-settings-engineers-location-tracking-phone-a9691046.html https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/google-privacy-settings-e...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo-fence_warrant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo-fence_warrant