throwawaygoog10

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by throwawaygoog10 6y ago
You seem to be missing what differential privacy is. It's not about collection of data, it's about the _use_ of that data. It's no secret that Google has an incredible amount of logging data, but the ways we can use it are ve
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by throwawaygoog10 7y ago
It isn't truly an oversight, it's an abuse of the fact that Docs/Sheets/Slides are not counted toward your quota. Their storage model is a little more complicated than a standard stream of bytes like an image or a text f
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by throwawaygoog10 7y ago
Should you want to move from Google services, the best way of ensuring you keep your data is to use Takeout [1], which exports your documents as both doc and html files. [1] https://takeout.google.com
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by throwawaygoog10 7y ago
:)
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by throwawaygoog10 8y ago
When we turned down the G+ API we injected synthetic errors in increasing fractions of requests a few days ahead of the actual turndown to alert users. I'm not sure if its the same case here, but it's possible that's what&#x2
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by throwawaygoog10 8y ago
What exactly is it that you believe is the truth then?
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by throwawaygoog10 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not on DNS or Gmail. > Now, Google does claim they don't track DNS requests. But consider why that is? Once upon a time they didn't scan Gmail content either, but that was before GMail dominat
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by throwawaygoog10 8y ago
I'm sorry your efforts failed internally. Our infrastructure is somewhat ossified these days: the new and exotic are not well accepted. Other than Spanner (which is still working to replace Bigtable), I can't think of a ton of rea