Just wondering how much trust people have using Google services such as Gmail, Google Drive, Google+, Voice and other services.
Poll: How much do you trust Google?
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Re: Poll: How much do you trust Google?
#2What do you mean by trust?
Trust that they don't link it to you personally to create a bio of you?
Trust that they don't forward the information to the NSA willingly?
Trust that they don't sell it to 3rd parties?
Trust that they have the security in place to prevent breaches?
Trust that they would respect my personal data like it's their own?
Re: Poll: How much do you trust Google?
#3There could be another option:
I no longer trust Google and I have moved some of my data to other services
I have moved my stuff off of Drive, stopped using Google+, but I continue to use GMail until I feel like I have a good solution for email.
Re: Poll: How much do you trust Google?
#4"No longer"? What if I never did?
"Some" of my data? What if all of my data?
Awful poll.
Re: Poll: How much do you trust Google?
#5I trust Google to honor their terms of service which is all we can really ask for I think.
Outside of that, I trust them as much as any other large company with a profit motive. Which is to say about as much as I trust my dog watching the Thanksgiving turkey while it cools.
Re: Poll: How much do you trust Google?
#6There could be another option: I no longer trust Google and I have moved some of my data to other services I have moved my stuff off of Drive, stopped using Google+, but I continue to use GMail until I feel like I have a good solution for email.
Can you let us know the other services you have migrated to? Would help.
Re: Poll: How much do you trust Google?
#7Enough to browse YouTube, and I still have a Gmail address from years back, which I no longer actively use. Then Maps, occasionally.
Those are pretty much the only Google services I use. I try to abstain from using their search engine directly as much as possible, instead preferring Startpage.
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#8.. according to this (understandably simplistic) poll it seems they may not be out.. but certainly being 'handed their hat.'
Re: Poll: How much do you trust Google?
#9I posted recently about how they lost my trust after snaring schools with offers of free email and Chromebooks, used that captive audience of kids to secretively build profiles to show ads, denied it when caught, but chickened out about lying in federal court and now they declare they've stopped doing it. Add to that statements that it couldn't be turned off and silently switching language about tracking on their web pages. If this isn't evil then I don't know what is.
Re: Poll: How much do you trust Google?
#10There could be another option: I no longer trust Google and I have moved some of my data to other services I have moved my stuff off of Drive, stopped using Google+, but I continue to use GMail until I feel like I have a good solution for email.
Can you let us know the other services you have migrated to? Would help.
Not the OP, but I've moved a lot of my file hosting from both Google and Dropbox services to a self-hosted install of OwnCloud. Unfortunately, one of my preferred ways of using Dropbox for sharing single files directly without an HTML interstitial page is not well supported by OwnCloud.
I, too, have stopped using Google+, and did not replace it with anything. I have gotten rid of my accounts on all social networking platforms.