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We will all be able to savor the irony when Dutch schoolchildren's private info is leaked, because whatever group they're going with will have no where near the
by googlryas 4y ago
We will all be able to savor the irony when Dutch schoolchildren's private info is leaked, because whatever group they're going with will have no where near the concern for security and protecting private data like Google does.
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoGoogle's entire purpose is selling private data. The fact that it retains a monopoly on the access to that data doesn't change that all the bad stuff is happening right in the first party entity.
- dekhn 4y agoGoogle does not monetize the private data in their cloud/business services. This is a different division of the company. People claim this a lot, but even in the ad part of the company, any data exchanged with other companies is not personalized. If you have any highly specific claims about this please point to news articles in reputable journals which have not already been repudiated.
- encryptluks2 4y agoI too would like to see examples. I find when people jump on the hate train and literally make things up that they usually have ulterior motives or just repeat whatever they read on 4chan.
- malepoon 4y agoEven if that's true, do we really want our children to grow up with (and get used to) these services that are usually "free" for personal use but paid for by tracking people across the internet, separate division or not?
- pelasaco 4y agoThe assumption that the "European" solutions would be the true Paladin of the justice is historically/morally wrong. It cannot be serious and as we can see in this blog post, is just fed by companies fighting for the same market.
- tallanvor 4y agoWhat percentage of adults do you think are paying for email services in Europe? I'd be shocked if it ended up even being 10%!
- fulafel 4y agoCounterexample of monetizing private data: https://dottech.org/84167/google-is-sued-for-showing-ads-in-gmail-based-on-email-content/ https://dottech.org/84167/google-is-sued-for-showing-ads-in-... and https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/14/13958884/google-email-scanning-lawsuit-ecpa-cipa-matera https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/14/13958884/google-email-sc...
- dekhn 4y agoShowing people ads based on their keywords is not monetizing private data (showing ads on Gmail is dumb, but for other reasons). I don't actually see any ads (haven't for a long time) on gmail.
- rand49an 4y agoGoogle's data is their most important asset, they're not selling it. Instead they sell access to their users eyeballs.
- croes 4y agoBecause of your username I think you are biased
- googlryas 4y agoNot really. I chose to work at Google specifically for that reason.