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Here's a few ways the post became true: Tracking Google Apps for Education students and even paid Google Apps for Business emails to build ad profiles, making

Here's a few ways the post became true: Tracking Google Apps for Education students and even paid Google Apps for Business emails to build ad profiles, making misleading statement to the public that they're not doing so, and then when it finally came to statements to federal court, lacking the dare to continue lying and finally confessing the truth and then claiming the consumer Gmail policy applied to Apps for Education data. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.html http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.ht... Conspiring to kill SkyHook just with its outsized influence like Microsoft used to. http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-lawsuit-motorola-Samsung http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-la... Tracking the physical location of Android phones for ad purposes without properly informing users and disabling things like Google Now if you disable the tracking. http://digiday.com/platforms/google-tracking/ http://digiday.com/platforms/google-tracking/ Google employee access personal information of others. Google says it has fixed the issue, but how do we even know? Is there any legal safeguard against someone at Google reading your email? http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-teens-spied-on-chats http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee... Paid inclusion for shopping search results http://marketingland.com/once-deemed-evil-google-now-embraces-paid-inclusion-13138 http://marketingland.com/once-deemed-evil-google-now-embrace... Ranking Google+ reviews over Yelp results even if the user explicitly searches for Yelp http://www.searchenginejournal.com/yelp-complains-outranked-google-local-listings/111539/ http://www.searchenginejournal.com/yelp-complains-outranked-... Decreasing contrast in the background of ads, this especially hurts older people as ability to see contrast decreases with age, and the FTC found that almost half the people fail to notice that there are ads on the page, thus forcing products that are first in the organic results to pay Google for ads. http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/01/31/is-google-intentionally-trying-to-minimize-the-fact-that-these-are-ads/ http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/01/31/is-google-intentional... http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/ftc-googles-ad-practice-is-deceptive.html/?a=viewall http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/ftc-googles-ad-practice-i...

ukimoo 12y ago
I'm sure you're aware that this collection of yours pertains to complaints of interested parties, and that if you'd bothered with any follow-through on these topics you'd have encountered a very different picture. But seeing as you had a cherry picked list of the harshest (and incomplete) reportings at the ready, augmented with you're own slanted commentary my guess is that a "full picture" isn't what you're aiming for here.
- ntakasaki 12y ago
  >if you'd bothered with any follow-through on these topics you'd have encountered a very different picture Why don't you expound on that very different picture instead of such a hand wavy kneejerk dismissal without any reasoning or references?
  - Chronic29 12y ago
    This. People are so quick to defend Google without backing up their claims. Yes, we know Google is "cool" but we don't need fanboism here on HN.
ericflo 12y ago
> lacking the dare to continue lying and finally confessing the truth This seems like a really strange argument to me.

ukimoo 12y ago

I'm sure you're aware that this collection of yours pertains to complaints of interested parties, and that if you'd bothered with any follow-through on these topics you'd have encountered a very different picture. But seeing as you had a cherry picked list of the harshest (and incomplete) reportings at the ready, augmented with you're own slanted commentary my guess is that a "full picture" isn't what you're aiming for here.

ntakasaki 12y ago
>if you'd bothered with any follow-through on these topics you'd have encountered a very different picture Why don't you expound on that very different picture instead of such a hand wavy kneejerk dismissal without any reasoning or references?
- Chronic29 12y ago
  This. People are so quick to defend Google without backing up their claims. Yes, we know Google is "cool" but we don't need fanboism here on HN.

ericflo 12y ago

> lacking the dare to continue lying and finally confessing the truth This seems like a really strange argument to me.