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> Policy will likely change in the future to make your full history of both gmail and anonymous browsing activity freely available to the public too. Eh? There

• jart 3y ago
  Of course it's going to happen. Read The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt. He talks a lot about how all the information Google records about you is permanent, can never be deleted, and any generation of lawmakers can decide to do whatever they want with it. Upcoming generations are going to want as much data as possible to train AIs, especially as the GPUs needed to do that become more affordable. You know how historians are always talking about what famous dead people wrote in their diaries and personal letters? Don't think for a moment that future generations won't do this to you.
  • mynameisvlad 3y ago
    That is quite the slippery slope you paint there. There would need to be several steps before we even come close to getting there. Is it possible? Sure. A lot of things are possible. Is it inevitable? Far from it.
  • bemusedthrow75 3y ago
    If people in a hundred years want to read all my emails, I can assure them in advance that I won't raise any contemporaneous objections. But that isn't quite the narrow framing you used.
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