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The issue here is that Google's business, or a large part of it, is all about amassing data in a useful and usable way. Most of what you propose would undermine
by Tyrannosaurs 13y ago
The issue here is that Google's business, or a large part of it, is all about amassing data in a useful and usable way. Most of what you propose would undermine Google as much as it would undermine security organisations.
- grey-area 13y agoThe issue here is that Google's business, or a large part of it, is all about amassing data in a useful and usable way. I see it as a social contract between Google and their customers - customers give up a certain amount of anonymity and allow some activities to be tracked so that they are provided with services, sometimes paid (e.g. google apps), sometimes free (e.g. search or gmail). If the relationship becomes one where Google takes whatever they want and provides that data to third parties, why should we as customers put up with it? It's particularly galling if you're paying them for the privilege. Plenty of alternatives are ready to replace them if they don't pay more than lip-service to their users' privacy.