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I'm a card-carrying member of the anti-Google brigade, but Fleischer's actual blog post wasn't all that bad - http://peterfleischer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/turni

by r0h1n 13y ago

I'm a card-carrying member of the anti-Google brigade, but Fleischer's actual blog post wasn't all that bad - http://peterfleischer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/turning-our-backs-on-2013.html http://peterfleischer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/turning-our-bac... > Privacy is all about the individual human being. So, it's somehow fitting that the biggest privacy surprise in 2013 was created by one individual human being, the courageous whistleblower, Mr Snowden, who opened the world's eyes to the almost unimaginable scale and scope of mass government surveillance. We'll have to wait until 2014 to learn if governments do anything meaningful to improve transparency and oversight of their spy agencies' work. I have low expectations. And this: > More countries around the world passed privacy laws modeled on Europe's. The US continued down its path of exceptionalism: the Federal government debated, but did not pass, any meaningful privacy legislation, but many US States actively filled the void with sweeping new privacy laws, fulfilling their historic role as laboratories of potential future Federal laws. Technology advanced, raising new questions and igniting new debates. Law suits and prosecutions came and went, and in my personal case, happily, mostly went.

blub 13y ago
It's not about the blog post and not about this specific law, but Google's attitude as a company. Their business model is at odds with privacy. The only thing that Google can do to show that they respect their users is to stop storing so much information about them and change their TOS to restrict usage of data and ensure there's a convenient way to control it for the end user. Instead they force them to input more info like their real names and phone numbers. As for this blog, it's so ridiculous that they talk about Snowden and yet Google is one of the main personal information providers included in the revelations. I don't think I've seen one post from a Google employee that demonstrated they understand privacy, they are hopeless.

by r0h1n 13y ago

blub 13y ago

It's not about the blog post and not about this specific law, but Google's attitude as a company. Their business model is at odds with privacy. The only thing that Google can do to show that they respect their users is to stop storing so much information about them and change their TOS to restrict usage of data and ensure there's a convenient way to control it for the end user. Instead they force them to input more info like their real names and phone numbers. As for this blog, it's so ridiculous that they talk about Snowden and yet Google is one of the main personal information providers included in the revelations. I don't think I've seen one post from a Google employee that demonstrated they understand privacy, they are hopeless.