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I simply do not believe this. Unless they're audited by a source that can be trusted and have the findings made public, I will not believe it either.
You're welcome to believe whatever you want, but a decent chunk of my day job is making sure that it's true.
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Yes, if you choose to delete it, it will be deleted. (It takes nontrivial amounts of time to delete it across distributed service architecture but the deletions do get propagated.)
I simply do not believe this. Unless they're audited by a source that can be trusted and have the findings made public, I will not believe it either.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I simply do not believe this. Unless they're audited by a source that can be trusted and have the findings made public, I will not believe it either.
You're welcome to believe whatever you want, but a decent chunk of my day job is making sure that it's true.
Honestly, people have to be fools to think this is anything more than a feel-good placebo. Google is only doing this because public sentiment is starting to grow restless regarding data privacy. But given the pitiful, embarrassing grasp (judging by the Facebook/Google hearings) Congress has on the issue, I guarantee there will be no kind of followup to ensure Google actually deletes the data as they say they will. An…
It would be good policy at Google to do / be ready to actually do the thing so that if called to / required to... they can quickly say "done!".
A CEO sitting in front of congress would certainly like that.
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You're welcome to believe whatever you want, but a decent chunk of my day job is making sure that it's true.
may i ask what your day job is?
This is welcomed, but they might do better to remove the requirement to have the Web/Location/App history enabled for apparently unrelated features. E.g. I cant store my home location in Google Maps without turning on Web & App activity history. Why? I cant share my current location (not historic, just my latest location - they only need to store one) with my partner unless I turn on Web and Location history. Why? I…
I turned off youtube watch history.
I can no longer see my google play music played counts, because somehow the same permission covers both, even though I would like music history but not youtube history.
This is welcomed, but they might do better to remove the requirement to have the Web/Location/App history enabled for apparently unrelated features. E.g. I cant store my home location in Google Maps without turning on Web & App activity history. Why? I cant share my current location (not historic, just my latest location - they only need to store one) with my partner unless I turn on Web and Location history. Why? I…
I'm happy to just leave both settings off entirely. I actually do have some historical location data still stored there, they know where I was a number of years ago. I almost wonder if leaving it there has a positive effect, as my life has changed, the locations I go have changed, the products and services I use and the stores I patronize have changed, and Google is left with a version of me that is no longer accurat…