Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good
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#2I scanned this essay for the inevitable "there is more work to be done" line. This time it's "we know our work here is never done, and we want to do more to stay ahead of user expectations."
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#3This I/O was all about On-Device ML. As ML chips get more powerful, a lot of these cool features that were only possible on the cloud will be moving to the device, lowering latency and working in poor network conditions. Google's use of Federated Learning is interesting too.
Re: Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good
#4I suggest that Google's dependency on knowing everything about you puts them in a completely existential crisis with respect to privacy - your data is in their DNA, there's just too much at stake.
MS and Apple can be far more aggressive in this regard because they simply don't really need your data in the same way to make money.
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#5I suggest that Google's dependency on knowing everything about you puts them in a completely existential crisis with respect to privacy - your data is in their DNA, there's just too much at stake. MS and Apple can be far more aggressive in this regard because they simply don't really need your data in the same way to make money.
And why is it that we all trust Google is unhackable? I won't be shocked if someday a torrent turns up with billions of private Gmail messages and user search history records.
Re: Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good
#6I suggest that Google's dependency on knowing everything about you puts them in a completely existential crisis with respect to privacy - your data is in their DNA, there's just too much at stake. MS and Apple can be far more aggressive in this regard because they simply don't really need your data in the same way to make money.
And why is it that we all trust Google is unhackable? I won't be shocked if someday a torrent turns up with billions of private Gmail messages and user search history records.
Perhaps because such a torrent has not shown up in the last 20 years?
Re: Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good
#7I suggest that Google's dependency on knowing everything about you puts them in a completely existential crisis with respect to privacy - your data is in their DNA, there's just too much at stake. MS and Apple can be far more aggressive in this regard because they simply don't really need your data in the same way to make money.
If the considerable part of consumers would stop using Google Search, Chrome, Android and other Google products due the privacy concerns, that would be a problem for Google - not an existential crisis, but a problem indeed. But we are nowhere near this imaginary scenario.
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#8I scanned this essay for the inevitable "there is more work to be done" line. This time it's "we know our work here is never done, and we want to do more to stay ahead of user expectations."
Every controversial company seems to have one. For Twitter, it's "we're so sorry, we know we've let the community down, and we promise to do better in the future"
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
And why is it that we all trust Google is unhackable? I won't be shocked if someday a torrent turns up with billions of private Gmail messages and user search history records.
Perhaps because such a torrent has not shown up in the last 20 years?
"Equifax was founded by Cator and Guy Woolford in Atlanta, Georgia, as Retail Credit Company in 1899"
And the thing is that most people would never knowingly make the privacy vs utility trade-off. The risk (that the entire world gain access to one's search history) is not in the best interest of most users. Personalized search does not provide that much added value.
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#10I scanned this essay for the inevitable "there is more work to be done" line. This time it's "we know our work here is never done, and we want to do more to stay ahead of user expectations."
Every controversial company seems to have one. For Twitter, it's "we're so sorry, we know we've let the community down, and we promise to do better in the future"
The "sorry" part was presented best by BP in South Park I think.