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Do you have a source for this? I've worked on user data and privacy-related stuff (I work on Maps, not Calendar) and everyone involved took it extremely seriou
by endtime 13y ago
Do you have a source for this? I've worked on user data and privacy-related stuff (I work on Maps, not Calendar) and everyone involved took it extremely seriously. We sent PMs back to the drawing board more than once when we found edge cases with potential privacy issues.
- brudgers 13y agoGoogle's single identity policy is an obvious example. Sharing that Google identity with other websites when that identity is logged into Google is a less obvious one. Analytics, cookies, personalized search results, etc. take it to Google's very core. Driving around collecting WiFi data, storing WiFi passwords, reading documents via Docs and email via Gmail, and just plain crawling the web don't embody any common language notion of privacy. Instead security stands in for it. Two factor authentication for a Google account is an example. It keeps a person's account secure but does not enhance privacy because Google will still share and slice and analyze everything that can possibly be associated with that account.