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I'm sure we can trust google to keep to their word and that we can trust a bankrupt airline to do their best at removing pii.
by malfist 2mo ago
I'm sure we can trust google to keep to their word and that we can trust a bankrupt airline to do their best at removing pii.
- elric 2mo agoYes, the same google that has repeatedly, entirely "by accident", captured boatloads of wifi data with their wardriving vehicles (or google streetview or whatever it's called). They sure seem like a trustworthy bunch.
- maybewhenthesun 2mo agoNot only those wardriving vehicles. They use everybody to scan the world's wifi networks. Well, except people like me who stubbornly turn off 'location accuracy' every time some app demands you turn it on. I don't know exactly what gets sent to google, but it's certainly enough to identify and track (retrospectively) a huge part of the world's population. Now I know you get tracked by the celltowers anyway, but still. Navigation works fine with the accuracy offered by just using GPS and it doesn't need all the wifi scanning, it's pure data harvesting.
- Atotalnoob 2mo agoGoogle 100% was wardriving and all of your other items. However, you can increase gps accuracy using wifi. GPS is not that precise (part of which is government regulations) and WiFi does help immensely with accuracy.
- maybewhenthesun 2mo agoYes, you can increase accuracy. However, I always turn it off and still get an accuracy of a few meters, which is plenty accurate nearly all practical purposes. Even in cities. The difference used to be larger, but with the multitude of satellite systems now available and the advancements in receivers the difference is way less than it used to be.
- dylan604 2mo ago> Now I know you get tracked by the celltowers anyway Yes, but theGoog doesn't own that data. By having all of theGoogOS devices scanning and reporting back directly to theGoog, theGoog gets that data for free. Plus, all of the other info it can hoover up that the cell towers would not have access.
- ozlikethewizard 2mo agoSurely all this will take is asking the trained LLM to deidentify it lol
- limagnolia 2mo agoThe article claims it has already been removed, that Google is committing to remove anything leftover that they find. You can argue that its a bad deal, shouldn't be allowed period, etc. But that is a different argument than saying that there is no scrutiny.
- antisthenes 2mo agoGemini, scrub this text for PII, make no mistake!