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> Consider that you're one of the developers that wrote this feature. You try very hard to make sure your users privacy rights are respected. Surely a develope
by ionised 11y ago
> Consider that you're one of the developers that wrote this feature. You try very hard to make sure your users privacy rights are respected.
Surely a developer working for Google knows that user privacy is not a priority for the company?
- mondoshawan 11y agoAfter working there for eight years, I can confirm the contrary of this statement. Google cares very much about user privacy -- the engineers doing the work even more so. The quote from one of their SREs swearing about the Snowden revelations was drop dead true, and engineers there have been working /very/ hard to fix issues like this. Google does not operate like Apple -- there are many hands at the tiller, and the ship moves in almost arbitrary directions at times. Situations like this do come up, and they are most of the time honest mistakes or oversights.
- PhantomGremlin 11y agoGoogle cares very much about user privacy Google cares very much about other actors violating user privacy. Not quite the same amount of "caring" if the violations are being done by Google itself.