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I hate google as much as the next guy but this seems like just a bunch of minor incidents not worth reporting instead of a major coverup (like imo the title of the article implies).
That sounds like a bug tracker where stuff reports things that shouldn't have happened.
Mmmm…. I think the title may be a bit strongly worded, but the concept that a big data company like Google isn’t doing what you expect them to be doing with your data…. Despite clear efforts to do so… that’s kind of concerning.
Like it’s cool that they have this DB and that things like this are getting fixed, it might be nice if they were more transparent about this… but it seems like they’re trying. And yet, so many privacy issues crop up due to the shear quantity and variety of data they process.
It’s a fine line. If they’re working on them reporting the issue before it’s resolved increases the risk somebody can use this as a kind of todo list of social and technical engineering weakpoints to get at other user data.
I don't fully agree with you. It's certainly no major coverup but it's a heap of evidence that goes against this shiny veneer google maintains with the public
Google pretends they are champions of user privacy and protection to maintain trust and enable data collection on an unprecedented scale
When this article shows they are actually leaking private info left right and center, have the most nonchalant attitude towards respecting and maintaining our privacy and evidently 'keeping private info safe' (or should I say 'not being evil') is at the bottom of their priority list
I thought they got rid of that from the list altogether when they realized they couldn’t not be evil while simultaneously maximizing profits
Not really. It's gone from the alphabet handbook, not Google's.
Which was a hilarious bit for me recently with a guy saying "I HAVE THE HANDBOK FOR GOOGLE" and getting all upset despite my repeatedly pointing out that it was removed for alphabet, which is a different company.
It also got moved around in the Google handbook a bit. Still exists though.
Yeah or basically all data is a risk, no matter how private the company claims to be
That the personal data of millions of people are leaked is newsworthy, even more so if it was hidden from the victims.
Or just the tip of the iceberg of a larger, more systemic problem within the organization. Wild your default position is to assume Google is doing all the right things when we have a long history of the company being shady af and lying about it.